I really like the idea of a hard disk - no more hunting round for a

blank tape with enough free space left; no more hunting round for
that
tape with the final episode of '24', which I know is there
somewhere -
but have some concerns...

I very much like the sound of the hard disk based systems too, but one
critiscm I have read is of excessive noise from the units, (presumably
fan noise and noise from the HDD itself). - Has anyone who owns such a
unit got any comments on this?