The WD Red is quiet. No, actually you have to say, silently. One must actually very very far with the ear to the case in order to hear anything. This is true for me one of the most important points.
Temperature: the disk could be today, bring on the warmest day of the year so far, to almost 40 degrees Celsius. However, only under extreme conditions, namely simultaneous writing and reading. So send and receive.
When watching a film from the plate, the temperature of the hard drive of the ambient temperature to approaching.
Of course, the plate, due to the rotation speed of a racing machine. But from a truck one demands no speed, but as much as possible to load.
The current consumption is even declined slightly compared to the previous Hitachi.
Although I would call two watts difference already as measurement tolerance.
So far, an absolute recommendation.
