I just switched out my velociraptor 300 for a Intel 160GB G2 SSD, and that helped the vibration in my Silverstone FT02, but there is still some there.
How much of a reduction in vibration and noise would I gain switching out my WD5000KS to a WD15EARS?
WD5000KS vs WD15EARS
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I know this is not something you want to hear, but getting rid of vibrations = no contact of HDD with the case at all. That means using things like this :
http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/z ... .html?id=4
Of course that is not compatible with HDD bays of Fortress, as you need to put it in 5.25" bay.
But back to your question
If this is true, then your HDD have 7200RPM/4 platters, and WD15EARS have 5400RPM/3 platters, plus it seems by the review that WD5000KS is one of the more vibrating drives, so you will probably get rid of a lot vibrations with switch.
http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/z ... .html?id=4
Of course that is not compatible with HDD bays of Fortress, as you need to put it in 5.25" bay.
But back to your question
If this is true, then your HDD have 7200RPM/4 platters, and WD15EARS have 5400RPM/3 platters, plus it seems by the review that WD5000KS is one of the more vibrating drives, so you will probably get rid of a lot vibrations with switch.
Vibration is highly variable between samples. My samples of WD Green 2x 4-platter 1TB, 1x 3-platter 1TB and 2x 4-platter 2TB have all had moderate vibration for 5400rpm drives. They're still very low compared to any 4-platter 7200rpm drive and possibly on par with typical 1-platter 7200rpm. Having different frequency than 7200rpm drives, case the HDD is mounted into may make it either less or more of an issue. Higher frequency contains more energy but if case's resonance frequency is low, lower rpm may be bad. Typically it's the other way around, though.
My both samples of Samsung F2 1TB (2-platter 5400rpm) are among the least vibrating of all my drives... and among quietest too being laptop-like quiet (and more pleasant-sounding noise profile than the two WD3200BEVT WD Scorpio laptop drives I have).
Switching WD5000KS to any 5400rpm regardless of capacity is a huge improvement. 1.5TB isn't necessarily a sweet spot since some of them have the same number of platters as 2.0TB variants of same product line. (Though my main reason to avoid 1.5TB is because I want to keep my HDD divisible by 1.0TB from now on: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB and so on. It helps keeping back-ups and migrating masses of data since each time I retire a generation of drives, I simply combine contents of two old ones.)
My both samples of Samsung F2 1TB (2-platter 5400rpm) are among the least vibrating of all my drives... and among quietest too being laptop-like quiet (and more pleasant-sounding noise profile than the two WD3200BEVT WD Scorpio laptop drives I have).
Switching WD5000KS to any 5400rpm regardless of capacity is a huge improvement. 1.5TB isn't necessarily a sweet spot since some of them have the same number of platters as 2.0TB variants of same product line. (Though my main reason to avoid 1.5TB is because I want to keep my HDD divisible by 1.0TB from now on: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB and so on. It helps keeping back-ups and migrating masses of data since each time I retire a generation of drives, I simply combine contents of two old ones.)