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.