[GLLUG] Small Form Factor PC

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Mon Aug 4 15:56:45 UTC 2014


On 04/08/14 16:51, Andy Smith wrote:
[snip]
> If you can I'd try to keep storage away from the place you're
> playing the media as mass storage inevitably means multiple spinning
> spindles and that means noise (the actual noise I can hear in this
> office now is from 10 SATA disks).

I was in a place last week where they have > 20 petabytes of storage. 
The noise is indescribable.

OTOH, you could get a lot of boxed sets on there.

That's one of the advantages of using the RP for playback.  My storage 
is elsewhere (a mere 4 terabytes) and the RP is completely silent.

John




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