On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Chris Silva 2manybills@gmail.com wrote:
The ideia is to have a lightweight system installed on a usb pen (almost all files are read only, so no problem) and add one or more HDD drives to perform the recording. Those drivers will only work when a recording is scheduled. Thus reducing noise to the minimum. Currently I have almost no dB coming from my vdr box, except for the disks.
I used to do this with a usb flashdrive but have switched to CompactFlash connected with a CF->SATA controller. Also only have one drive in the box for recording (which I'll move to my fileserver eventually). For the harddrive I just set a spindown timeout so it goes to sleep when not in use.