I originally set up fail2ban because I got fed up with the noise of the hard disk going tick...tick...tick every 15 seconds or so, as another password guessing

I originally set up fail2ban because I got fed up with the noise of the hard disk going tick...tick...tick every 15 seconds or so, as another password guessing bot login attempt got logged and the disk heads had to seek as the logfile was written out to disk...