in my server room(s), i manage over 40 TB of data. 1/2 of it's on hitachi high end fibre disks. they fail about 2x as often as do their main competitor's disks. just a little data point. i have no idea how quiet they are, though :) data centers are loud as all get out. On Jan 16, 2004, at 7:10 AM, James Rice wrote: > in a server room, nobody notices drive noise, it's expected.