Adding a 3rd drive questions

1.) I have a mac pro with two 3Ghz processors and two 500GB harddrives. Does anyone know if adding a 3rd 500GB hard drive will make the mac run much hotter?
2.) I will use the 3rd drive just for backing up files, so it will not be accessed on a regular basis. In this case, should I still be concerned with finding a drive that is not too noisy? The drive only makes noise and spins when it is being accessed, right?
Thanks!!

On the other hand the Maxtor drives that you do
recommend have had one of the worst quality
reputations in the past. Since they've been
acquired by Seagate the quality of Maxtor drives has
improved.
Actually, what happened was once Seagate took over they had Maxtor stop making the Maxline III 7V300F0. The Seagate 7200.10 does not compare well to it so they removed the competition.
While the 7200.10 provides good sequential performance with large files it is unable to keep up with the Maxline models in small file duplication tests. It is too bad that Seagate did not integrate Maxtor technnology into Seagate products.
In addition, the Seagate 7200.10 320GB still has a write speed limitation of 47MB/sec. when mounted internally as a single drive inside Apple Mac Pro and PowerMac G5 models. I have a complaint posted on this at Seagate and they tell me no fix is available for the 320GB model.
Now when I buy a Maxtor 300GB at Frys it is just a rebranded 7200.10 hard drive with a 3 year warranty instead of a 5 year warranty that would have been provided had it been sold under the Seagate label.
Seagate bought Maxtor and instead of using the technology, dumped Maxtor hard drives. It will be very interesting to see what Seagate tries to pass off to Maxtor customers when they need warranty service in the future.

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