[vdr] Re: Reducing noise (was commands ...)

[Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Guido Fiala wrote:
> 
> Recently i bought cork plates (10mm) and placed them anywhere in the casing 
> and simply laid the drives a small pieces of such plates (fixed with rubber 
> strings), additional i powered all fans with 7V instead of 12V (connect the 
> plus wire to 12V and the minus wire to 5V).
> 
> You can not hear the drive spindles anymore (just random head movements come 
> through), the power-fan is the noisiest part now (despite 7V), overall it's 
> more silent than my old VCR.

Did you know, modern harddiscs you can be set to a low noise mode
(especially Maxtor drivers are doing this good). The head movement is slowed
down, you do not hear it anymore. (And access time is still ok for vdr, 
a application that ist mostly reading linear forward).

        Matthias