As per my other post abut NAS Drives – yesterday I took it upon myself to build a NAS box from parts I already had and thus save myself spending any money. The goal if you recall was to have a system that was able to be upgraded in space later such as adding 1TB or larger Harddrives as needs arose. This journey took a while to get everything ready and was the end result worth the effort involved?
The Acer Desktop was small and was prone to getting very hot inside which caused the CPU Fan to jump from 998RPM to 4500+ RPM which meant it sounded like an Aircraft taking off. You could argue that UK does not get Hot that much but the room were the computer are was very hot indeed – even with Desktop Fans blowing onto me – it was still like living in a Sauna.
The iMac was quiet no matter what and this has a 2.8GHz CPU and built into the confines of a monitor. Laptops by there very design are quiet for most part but desktop Machine’s for some reason are too noisy. I see them in the shops and they seem very quiet but the environment is not a library – so easy to be fooled. I have seen (or rather heard) an HP machine which was so quiet, you would be mistaken that it was actually on until you work out the inside is low powered crap.
