Heh only just spotted this thread, This explains those disclaimers.. It does kinda worry me that a company pulling this sort of stunt isn't even competant enough to do it from different ISPs Wonder if this blokes a 13 year old e-millionaire As a nice contrast, I think MikeCs sticky reply is spot on....

Got one of these a while ago (before this lovely site popped up), and thought it was doing a fine job. definately quieter then the stock hsf that came with my computer and apparently good for up to 1.4Ghz athlons However, recently i started getting stability problems and after investigation discover...

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php has a program which (amongst other things) will have a little chat with your hard drive and give you some sort of pointers toward its health
a bit cryptic, but possibly usefull.

Perhaps not reviews, but adding a list of reccommended cd/dvd drives might be handy. theres wild variation in the amount of noise these things chuck out - the plextor ive got at the mo is pretty much inaudable providing you slow it down to 8x, but the generic drive i had before would shake the walls...