Google's take in a study of over one hundred thousand drives in real life:



http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf

The popular cheap Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is an easy click on mount with no mobo removal needed, but the stock fan is loud at full blow. I have good case airflow, so I can even use it passive without the fan, but in the end I have it connected to the mobo with CPU Quiet Fan enabled, and with a ...

I'm not planning to use the airduct with the Sonata (the one which runs from over the CPU fan out of the case) so I've removed it. However, this leaves an open grilled vent in the case which, I presume, will let dust in and noise out. How have others dealt with this? P. Resurrecting a very old topi...

Needs some serious cable arrangement done and it's too bad your PSU cables obstruct the flow of the air being blown to the rear fan... Not much I can do about the short ATX cable on the Sonata II PSU and the placement of the power connector on the 4coredual-vsta mobo, but it's not as bad as it look...

After reading this thread, I thought I'd try some suspension of my own. Behold the vertically suspended 2.5" drive:


No, it's not supposed to be permanent, but I am going to get some elastic to suspend my usual 3.5" drives