Somewhere in October last year I've assembled myself a nice little home server which was meant to be as silent as possible. The reason for this was that the server is basically located in my bedroom, and I didn't want the noise from all the fans and hard-disks to annoy me. In order to achieve this I've assembled a nice little machine with a Gigabyte motherboard with a dual-core Atom, Antec case, and two Western Digital Green series hard-disks. This all sounds quite nice and all, until I discovered a shocking truth about the above hard-disks - the hard way...