On tomshardware they tested this drive and mentioned: "WD goes down this path with its Caviar GP drives, as the firm adjusts the rotation speed anywhere between 5,400 RPM and up to 7,200 RPM dynamically for each model." Is this proven to be incorrect info now? http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/11/...

Will this software raid (md) work fine, as it should be really 100% stable. Don't want to loose all my data because of software problems ofcourse, read some people having trouble with this in Ubuntu. About the raid5 drives going into stanby mode: Is there an option that the drives go into standby mo...

WD green 500GB or 750GB in a raid5 setup would be awesome too for such a server
Does anyone know if there are low energy mobo's supporting this functionality?

I've been reading a couple of days about what hardware to pick for a small home linux server. My idea is at this time that with the 690G AMD chipset relatively low power configurations are easily to achieve. But because I'll be running linux I will be better off with a nvidia chipset because of linu...

Have you measured the power consumption of this setup?