The drive is pleasantly quiet, you have almost held to the ear the hard disk recorder to hear something.
The speed is high enough to simultaneously accommodate 2 HDTV television broadcasts and view an existing recording. So 3 independent continuous loads at the same time! In this case, the formatting proven in Journaled File System (JFS), with NTFS I have not tried it.
Because of the shift plate is in daily use. So far, 3 months without any problems.
01/18/2015 Supplement: already one year without problems