What HardDrive Do You Use?

I use the LaCie 3TB d2 USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series Hard Drive with my MAC Book Pro computer. See:

https://www.lacie.com/US/products/product.htm?id=10628

DataTale quad bay Thunderbolt drive http://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/store/RS-M4T.html

Filled with 4 Hitachi Deskstar 4TB drives.

Looking forward to high quality Thunderbolt cable to try between this storage unit and my Mac Mini.

Stickman --

Like you, I have an OWC case, but the drive was modified by Benjamin at Mojo Audio. He put in a 4TB AV drive, added some sound proofing and/or vibration absorption, and the drive is almost completely quiet. You have to be right on top of it, without the music on, in order to hear it.

As a photographer, I have many other drives, including the standard OWC Mercury Elite Pros, which is probably what you have. They're all too noisy for the stereo. I also have a couple of OWC Raid drives that sound like the local regional airport.

I use Seagate server grade drives in my NAS in a mirrored RAID config. They are quiet and very tough.

Started out using regular drives and they failed in a few months

RAID is very tough on drives, so server grade is important - according to my friends at the computer store.

Got the same RAID config drives on my photo processing machine and the are great.

Regards

I did some extensive research when I put together my DROBO and everywhere I read directed me to not very expensive Western Digital Reds. (I use the WD blacks, 10,000 rpm in my server, on a RAID array).