I actually found the source of the voltage leak noise. It was actually the PSU all along. But since the PSU is at the bottom of the case, I can't hear it from the bed like I used to (not to mention the room has to be below 20C anyway.
I looked at a modular PSU and since the 24 pin and the +24 are in roughly the same location as the where it is now, I decided to scrap that idea.
So the upgrade stands as the SATA optical drives (either BD or DVD), and a new card reader since the current one is almost 10 years old and can't read SDHC/XC cards. Even though I'm not really worried about it (and openSUSE doesn't support exFAT format anyway), the black bezel would look nicer with the black colour of the case (verses the cream colour of the current card reader bezel). I used to have a black bezel for my current card reader but I have no idea what happened to it, since it was 9 years ago when I got it and built Ziggy. Oh well.
06 February 2012
Hard drive noises
Well, Shizuma's HDD started giving some weird noise (it did it twice, so it's not a fluke), so I decided to keep her powered off most of the time now since I don't exactly have the money to buy another and clone it.
My only problem with having her shut off is that I lose my FTP, since OS X 10.6.8 has a easy, built-in FTP server. I can set up an FTP server within openSUSE 11.3 (and I've done it before), but it's just so awkward, and when I had to reinstall on Triela, for some reason, the FTP was very finicky.
I was "forced" to setup Firefox Sync (though I really didn't want to use it) to ease the discomfort of not being able to use Firefox on Shizuma. I kept the sync tabs option unchecked though... I don't want to have to deal with the tab groups opening and closing when I don't really need them.
It would be nice if Firefox Sync also took care of installed addons, but oh well..
Well, I hope I can muster up some money soon and get a new HDD for Shizuma and get that process rolling... Maybe I should check the option to power down the HDD when possible (whatever OS X calls it, if it has it...).
My only problem with having her shut off is that I lose my FTP, since OS X 10.6.8 has a easy, built-in FTP server. I can set up an FTP server within openSUSE 11.3 (and I've done it before), but it's just so awkward, and when I had to reinstall on Triela, for some reason, the FTP was very finicky.
I was "forced" to setup Firefox Sync (though I really didn't want to use it) to ease the discomfort of not being able to use Firefox on Shizuma. I kept the sync tabs option unchecked though... I don't want to have to deal with the tab groups opening and closing when I don't really need them.
It would be nice if Firefox Sync also took care of installed addons, but oh well..
Well, I hope I can muster up some money soon and get a new HDD for Shizuma and get that process rolling... Maybe I should check the option to power down the HDD when possible (whatever OS X calls it, if it has it...).
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