Helmut Auer wrote: ... > You have 9 disks in the living room ? This is getting a bit off-topic, but to answer your question: The main VDR system in the living room has 4 disks, just to make good use of the IDE controller on the main board. I am using SAMSUNG SP1604N, which are very quiet. Actually, the DLP beamer makes a lot more noise. ;-) I am thinking of putting a diskless system into the living room. This may have to wait until I figure out how to squeeze 14 disks into my server (it currently has 10). > You are right with noise and heat, but the disks will live longer when > you disable spindown. That obviously depends on how often you spin them up and down. I would assume that a disk which is on for 2 hours a day and off for 22 (so it spins up/down once per day) lives *a lot* longer than a disk that is on for 24 hours a day. What do you think? Carsten.
