recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:32, nate wrote:
> Ron Johnson said:
>
> > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise,
> > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater
> > in the room.
>
> I like white noise, but unfortunately not all computers emit such
> noise. my tivo is one, as is my laptop, I gotta turn on a powerful
> fan at night to drown out the tivo, which has 2 drives in it, at least
> one of them has gotten to the 'soft but piercing whine' point where
> I have trouble sleeping. Doesn't compare to my laptop, it's about 10x
> louder :(
>
> just gotta have enough fans to offset the whine. Used to have my redhat
> server in my bedroom, but it too was too loud with 5 x 10k RPM drives,
> the whine was loud despite 3x30CFM fans and my floor fan running. but
> in my living room I can barely hear the whine, since there are about 7
> other computers running at any given time with lots more fans, my 48port
> switch's fans are really loud and do a good job at generating white noise,
> one time last year when a friend came in from outta town I actually slept
> next to my rack so he could have my bedroom for the night, wasn't too
> bad since there was so many fans(with all of em maybe 250CFM total)
Your electric bills my be outrageous...
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