Quiet Giant HDD with 2-port SATA controller

I use Win7 in the 64-bit variant with AMD 790X motherboard and an AMD Socket AM3 processor.

The HDD is obviously not my boot disk!

The HDD (without that which was mentioned in the description) with a 2-port SATA controller - delivered (PCIe 1x HighPoint RocketRAID 620). This was for me necessary because the board initially wanted to recognize the HDD with 750GB. After I had the HDD but then partitioned at the Highpoint controller (a partition with about 2,72TB usable capacity) ran the HDD even to the onboard controller and a 1 1/2 year old eSATA / USB 2.0 housing problems.

The Windows startup is extended by the HighPoint controller to a few seconds (about 5 seconds) and it took me no additional driver - finally true plug and play ...

As with Cavier Green models rather usual emphasis was placed on smoothness and power consumption than on performance of WD - the HDD is not therefore the fastest of all. When backing up large files (4 - 15GB per file), I reached under Windows 7 average write rates of about 90 MB / s at the Highpoint controller onboard a little less!?!?

Audible is the HDD, directly on the desk lying in the external housing, only briefly during start-up and no longer - no clacking, no beeps, no buzzing noise and no humming ;-)

I'm very satisfied.

***** UPDATE *****

I am still not satisfied - but:

After I installed the eSATA controller was it increases to only incomprehensible crashes and errors of my system.
I have the first pushed onto a through-run BIOS update. It turned to the "Down Data" of the BIOS but found that the error was not there.
In the interplay of my Gigabyte motherboards, the Highpoint eSATA Controller (PCIe) and my Creative Sound Blaster (PCI) sound card came it obvious incompatibilities,
caused the crashes and system errors.
Currently I no longer use the eSATA controller, I can do without it now.

My system now runs stable again ...