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I put in a couple of big Western Digital 'Green Power' hard drives - these are really nice drives, the quietest ones I've ever come across (I'd say they were totally silent) and barely warm after running for a few hours. Pretty outstanding, I'd really recommend them unless you want very high performance.

There's been a *lot* of concern about those drives, in that they spin-down automatically *much* too frequently, leading many people to expect premature deaths.

Keep an eye on the head load/unload counts from smartctl -a to see what's happening with your own system. Apparently a proprietary "vendor unique" command/parms is required to disable this stupid default behaviour, and WD provide a DOS(!?) utility to issue the command.

Cheers