I've never had a WD fail, nor have I ever had a WD earn itself any corrupt sectors, or become buggy in anyway shape or form.
I did have a Seagate Barracuda "fail", once - but, considering the whole system went down at the same time (whole rig turned off like the plug had been pulled - upon reboot, HDD was being read as unformatted; MEM had to be RMAed, as that turned out bad; CMOS batt had to be replaced, etc - it was like a voltage spike that crashed the rig or something) - I can't exactly blame the HDD. I do know that for some reason, I couldn't reformat the drive, either, and it was scrapped
- my replacement was a WD 320GB SATA cause it was all I had money for.
Falkinwallbrown said:
Hmm...what if I put them in a silencer?
you won't have a need to encase the 500s in a HDD silencer. The Raptor, maybe - depends on if you find it to be too loud or not. They can get a bit noisy because of how fast they operate, but the noise isn't bothersome to most people.
DaMulta said:
Room temp I would think, just let them run. No need to water cool or fan them to death.
+1 The only HDD I use a cooler with is my primary drive, and that's only because of how often it's accessed. Even with the cooler on my setup, temps for that specific HDD will sometimes approach 40C. The cooler that I use is more of a HDD heatsink, with a couple of fans to cool off the cooling fins:
It doesn't keep the HDD super cold like most HDD coolers
attempt to do, but it does keep a more steady overall temp. Bad part is that it requires a spare 5.25" bay.
My other two HDDs just hang out together, and they stay at case temp with no real cooling solution aside from the front case fan.
