On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 26 December 2010 11:09:00 Brent Busby wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Ivan K wrote: >> > I was surprised to hear that so many people write their audio files to >> > a second drive. ÂI always thought that most audio people preferred as >> > few drives as possible in a system to keep noise down. >> >> SATA drives make almost no noise. ÂYou'll get more noise from your >> processor and power supply fan than you ever will from even five or six >> SATA disks. > > While that is true in general, the disk directly attached to the pc's main > frame will produce a lot of low frequency noise from resonances. I found some > drive-bays at reichelt that work without trays and have all the inner parts > with the hdd attached via shock-absorbers. Definitely worth its 21â... > http://www.reichelt.de/?ACTION=3;GROUP=E66;GROUPID=733;ARTICLE=91887;SID=2892ic8awQARwAAEpCWQke96457b63f521ffeea99e7480a588420 > > Have fun, > > Arnold eSata with a long cable & the audio drive placed in a quieter area. System drive could be a smallish SDD. Little noise. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
