Seriously, I'm thinking about building a combined vdr with a home raid5-fileserver. That would be 4 harddisks for raid5, one additional scrap disk for vdr recordings, a regular midi-tower case and a 2 GHz Celeron. Any chance at all to make that setup silent enough for home use?
The obvious alternative would be to put that big server into a closet (in the basement if possible...) and use a silent barebone for display. (Or use that system which distributes video signals over Cat5 cables.)
Olaf