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(More customer reviews)Just ordered 3 (max it would let me) from Amazon, and picked a 4th one from a local MicroCenter. They are installed using rubber gromets, and when all 4 are running at full speed, I can't bearly hear them. When the case is closed (I have a sound dampening case) - I don't hear anything.
I bought it for these reasons:
1. I wanted a green drive that would work well with RAID, the others I looked at WD Caviar Green and Seagates - had issueswith RAID.
2. I was torn between the 2TB model F3EG, but went with the 1.5TB - simply for lower cost per TB while still having redundancy. I don't plan on upgrading for a long time. If I do - I guess I'll rebuild to newer interface (SATA 3).
3. Quiet drive, since I have already spent some money to get my case to an inaudible level. So far, it is quieter than I could have expected.
4. Wasn't really worried about speed - something good enough. In RAID5, I get reads of 300+MB/s, and write of 30-40MB/s (write-cached disabled) and 200+MB/s (write-cache enabled). I have write-cahced enabled write now - since I'm moving a lot of data over, I might consider disabling it, since I don't see a constant write of 30+MB/s in regular operation.
5. I wasn't planning on using it as an OS disk - only for storage.
It would have been nice if they had inclded a SATA cable. I realize it's an OEM - my fault that I didn't pay attention.
All in all, great purchase so far. I hope the drives lives to at least 3 years - that's when I might consider upgrading.
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