Get a Seagate drive, they idle at about 30 dB, and access at about 32 dB which is right on the edge or hearing. If you can mount the thing properly it'll stay quiet (the vibration of the drive can cause more noise than the drive itself. These thing come in sizes up to 160 gigs.
I don't know what your project looks like, but perhaps you could take a slimline CD drive from a laptop and pull the parts out of it to build what you need. Of course you'd lose the tray load ability, but maybe that's ok. If you are concerned about interconnect, almost all of the newer drives use a standard connector, and it is actually not hard to find an adapter to standard PC power and IDE.
Check out ViperDB, written in perl, it does it's checks every 5 minutes, in a highly optimized way at that. I actually know the guy who wrote it, and when setting up software on his machine set off his pager something fierce.
I've got an nVidia GeForce 2 MX card with S-Video and composite out. There are no special drivers required, or special setup. At powerup, the card detects where the video cable is plugged in, and uses that output. The upshot of this is that the video bios string shows up on my TV when I start up the machine.
I think that for HDTV, your best bet might be to find a display with VGA input. As for that, Princeton makes a line of fairly pricey displays that look just like TV's, but with every imaginable connection available. I don't know if they've broken into the HDTV market yet.
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These guys sell a sumo platform (BASIC Stamp powered) for $90. That leaves room in the budget for upgrades. or buy two so they can battle :)
Get a Seagate drive, they idle at about 30 dB, and access at about 32 dB which is right on the edge or hearing. If you can mount the thing properly it'll stay quiet (the vibration of the drive can cause more noise than the drive itself. These thing come in sizes up to 160 gigs.
I don't know what your project looks like, but perhaps you could take a slimline CD drive from a laptop and pull the parts out of it to build what you need. Of course you'd lose the tray load ability, but maybe that's ok. If you are concerned about interconnect, almost all of the newer drives use a standard connector, and it is actually not hard to find an adapter to standard PC power and IDE.
Check out ViperDB, written in perl, it does it's checks every 5 minutes, in a highly optimized way at that. I actually know the guy who wrote it, and when setting up software on his machine set off his pager something fierce.
Check out Amavis and Open AntiVirus. I've got them working under courier with some mods with great results. Plus the whole thing is free!
I've got an nVidia GeForce 2 MX card with S-Video and composite out. There are no special drivers required, or special setup. At powerup, the card detects where the video cable is plugged in, and uses that output. The upshot of this is that the video bios string shows up on my TV when I start up the machine.
I think that for HDTV, your best bet might be to find a display with VGA input. As for that, Princeton makes a line of fairly pricey displays that look just like TV's, but with every imaginable connection available. I don't know if they've broken into the HDTV market yet.
--Matthew