since there cooler than some 7200s, they could be used in a smart drive 2002

put a drivebay cover in it's place much quieter. floppy disks are DEAD

one of the big manufactuerers i think simpletech, makes an 8 GB 2.5" IDE flash drive. The 4 gb one was only like $4k or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i looked at their website but the document is pdf and they want u to regester before u look at it-just so tyhey can spam u-F*CKERS

it should fit vertically in the 3/12" bays

the firewire 800 spec will allow some ridiculous length of wire, so putting a few 2x40 deltas in it, and putting it in the other room is an option. also network attached storage could work

if theres carpet on the floor, that should do the job

the heatsink may need to be snaded down in the corner on a aiw because of the tv tuner. you may lose the oc, but not the scilence

jhh wrote:If it was a sealed chamber maybe it wouldn't matter so much if unknown liquid boiled/evaporated, maybe the whole thing would act like a big heatpipe!

exactly dats what i was thinkin

if u look at the OEM computer manufacturers like HP, Compaq, Dell etc they do pay a lot of attention to the noise levels of computers these days, the computers built by your local computer store seems to be the one's that sound like jet engines taking off these days and by the fan nuts (I used to b...

oc system has an enhanced oced video card that has the zalman heatpipe thingy on it. with a quiet panaflow, it culd still keep its oc, and if u backed the oc off, it would be almost totaly fanless. u can get the cool in different colors too.

the ipod uss a 1.8" drive, prolly a toshiba. one of those small one could be scilenced in a laptop 2.5" bay, but they are small (GB) and slow

the pc-30 has the psu sucking air from the cpus, and it can be mnodded for two blowholes in the top. if u ewant more expansion there is the pc-50, a pc-30 with three 51/4" bays. a 3.06HT shouldn't be a problem with 2 panaflows blowing in in the front and another two blowing out on the top. one or tw...

personaly, i'd get a r300 and put a zalman thingy on it. the AIW radeons usualy come with fans. oh, and matrox didn't blow it with the parhelia, its the best card on the mrket at the moment with it's triple head

actualy they can't take type 2. if there is one that can, a pci ramdisk would work. i'd recomend backing it up to a remote HD because if there power goes out, the data goes too. on the other hand using a ups can help.

if u have the $$ just geta cf ide converter or two and stick a 3GB cf in it. then u would have a totaly NO MOVING PART pc. soft jbod would be good, riad 0 wouldn't do much with the spped of flash memory.

for a cuda, a homemade elstic suspension is more than enough

unfortunately for us silent nuts, we undervolt the few fans we do have and such. cooling ibms is the key. i've heard about many 75 gxps that are still living well as secindary drives. they are well cooled. ive also heard about 75gxps that have died many times (like gotten a lot of rma's on one purch...

two 80mm panaflows will keep ur HD cooler and quieter than any 51/4" bay hd cooler

theres this ide to scsi adaptor, put the wd on it, get a scsi cont, a long cable, and hear the scilence

just geta 180 gxp quiet and fast. riad 0/1 cause their ibms after all

sound cards don't put out much heat, they just block it from escaping

it must be the hd, because my dell 4100's hd is as loud as an airplane, or so it seems. there are only two fans, psu, and exhause and they are both very quiet. cd-r sounds like its about to blow the case to bits, tho w/ it's shananihans. good thing it only is working <1% of the day

why?? a cd-drive only spins when it is working, about 1% of the time. deal with a tiny bit of vibration and noise f/ that one mine a day it actually spins up.

I'm not too sure which case model you're referring to, however, I do remember seeing that they used this case in one of their watercooling kits. LiteOn is actually the maker (as far as I know), swiftech just rebranded/used their product. It's pretty nifty with thumbscrews, and a bigger than usual P...

wds are the loudest drives avilible, tho w/ a sandwich and some sound-absorbing foam they should be okay

hello.
its the swifty QP case
Havent figured that out yet, have we???LOL

if u just want to monitor its activity, then hook a superbright led to the hd activity port

the 180gxps rock, tho id have some kind of redundancy (raid5, 1 or 0/1, just because they are after all ibms

this is a good idea. ive seen a review of remote accses only machines in pcmag. it is a good variation of the tried and true kvm over cat5, for silence. Im sure that it sux f/ gaming, and music, but when u are shooting at perople a million zillion times a second in counterstrike, or listening to lou...

storage review did a write-up on them.
very nice. great f/raid