[Discuss] noise

[David Bronaugh]

Daniel M. German wrote:
>  Nav> I've been running a small lab (~40 workstations) of GX280s at UVic for
>  Nav> approx. two years, and I really like the machines now. As previously
>  Nav> mentioned, they are SUPER quiet. I walk into a room of over 20
>  Nav> computers and it seems quieter than my single AMD XP 1900+ machine at
>  Nav> home.
>
> Dell is very good at this. This is my silence ranking, for the
> computers I work with:
>
> * Apple Mini. This machine is _silent_
>
> * Typical laptop with good harddrive and no internal fan (I can hear
>    the disk in the laptop, perhaps it is proximity)
>   
I'm going to be experimenting with something interesting in this 
regard... CF->IDE adapters, and high speed compact flash cards. This 
would eliminate the remaining noise in my laptop, as there would be no 
moving parts at all.

Testbed is going to be my IBM T23. Should be an interesting experiment.

David