2009/1/12 Grahame Kelly :
>
> Hi MythTV Users.
>
> < In a effort to have the most silent MythTV backend integrated frontends' >
>
> Those of you with some available dosh may be interested in the following
> hard drives just released that are specially suited to multi-streaming media
> data (DTV). That is of course until Solid State Drives become affordable
> and appropriate sizes for DTV Media Centres, will probably do the best
> available job of storage.
>
> URL -->
> http://www.crn.com.au/News/92392,seagate-launches-new-pipeline-hd-drives.aspx
>
> Cheers. Grahame.
Hey,
I imagine this is to compete directly with the Western Digital 'AV'
branded drives which have been around for a while now and have very
similar characteristics.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=%7BB1A99C2C-27CC-4575-9CC3-253DA4AB6A63%7D
(N.B. Dated: April 9, 2007)
It is also possible on most drives to adjust the acoustic profile
using `hdparm -M`. Using this you can sacrifice performance for
reduced noise. Even better of course is to have the drives spun down
when not in use, then they're very quiet...
Cheers,
Owen.
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