Re: how to get a silent harddisk?
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:47, Tom Allison wrote:
> Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> > Joachim Förster said:
> >
> >>Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk
> >>cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)?
> >>
> >
> >
> > I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is only reading those
> > files and there is enough memory that they are cached in the kernel file
> > cache, then perhaps the atime is being updated and that is causing the
> > disk to spin up?
> >
> > Are you mounting with the noatime option?
> >
> > Maybe there's another http proxy that doesn't require any disk access?
> >
> > I am interested in following this thread. I would like to set up a similar
> > computer, with as few fans and spinning drives (zero would be ideal) as
> > possible while staying inexpensive and low-power.
> >
>
> For starters, consider via's eden PC's. Most of them are fanless.
> Then look at the hard drives that are out their with Fluid Bearings.
> Seagate is one, I think there a japanese company (Fujitsu or something) that
> also has very low noise hard drives.
According to what I've read on this list in the past, the Seagate
Barracuda IV is very quite.
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