I switched from a Windows Media Center PC to an Apple Mac Mini around August of last year. My media files were still being hosted on a Windows box until last month.

I then had seven external drives connected to the mini in my living room. It was astonishingly quiet.

I hadn’t bought a PVR solution for the Mac Mini since I had read rumors that Apple was going to unveil one in February. Nothing like that happened, so I bought a device that let me watch TV on my Mac.

Since I connected that device to my system, the fans on some of the hard drives have been whirring – trying to cool them. I became tired of hearing the fans so I ran some wire from the living room to my office (they share a wall). I put my hard drives in the next room and now I can’t hear the fans. I’ve got to clean up the wires behind my TV again since I changed stuff. One day, I’ll come up with a well-thought out system for my hard drives and media.