Is there any information or experience to be shared on the acoustic characteristics of this drive? thx!

I set up HD suspension with cheap flat sewing rubber (10m for 2 euros). The Sharkoon Rebel9 only has 5.25 bays so its perfect for this. I used the rubber to secure the drive in all three axes, with 4 strings carrying the weight. Testing with a failed drive: http://files.sknop.net/fotos/pc/hdsusp1.jp...

lol, even though experiences from single persons have no statistical relevance, i'll play along: - 4 Samsung, none dead - 1 Maxtor, 1 dead - 3 Hitachi, 1 dead, 1 had corruption once but working fine - 3 WD, 1 dead - lots of Quantums, none dead In the end the only thing we can agree on is to avoid ma...

So they found drive temperatures irrelevant Only for new drives. Figure 5 shows there is a pronounced difference for drives 3 years old and above. The effect of load on the AFR is also quite interesting, whose only significant influence is on the very new drives (Figure 3). I got the 750GB, btw. It...

And you would agree that those critical aplications exclude home users. Realistically, how much can those hdds been run in? 1-2 days, or 1 week at most. Though I don't have figures, I believe it's longer than that. And except a minority of cases (say 1% premature failures) you get a better drive. I...

Infancy is covered by waranty anyway, so I guess the more people buy raid, the cheaper the rest can get their plain vanilla longer lasting faster non-worn el cheapo non-raid. Yes, but the normal version is more likely to fail. Raid editions cater for a different market, it's for those running criti...

Presumably the RAID edition is tuned for better performance and longevity while in a RAID setup than a non-RAID version. What I know about pro vs. consumer network equipment may be valid for "raid editions" vs. normal versions of HDs, too: The pro versions come with a much longer burn in test time....

I'd run the OS on the RAID for the read speed benefit. Don't. As Wibla already pointed out, it is a time bomb. I really question the choice of RAID 5. Do you really need to read that much data per second at a sustained rate in an HTPC? I second shen's recommendation for RAID 10 or RAID 0+1. It seem...