If you're just looking to add an extra drive to your Mac Pro, the only 'enterprise' feature you will benefit from is the warranty.
It might be worth looking at the new range of high performance consumer drives from Western Digital which also now have a 5 year warranty. Caviar Black - $210 for 1TB. I ordered one a few days ago.
I work in video and I use a lot of drives. I must have had over 80 WD drives over the past 5 years or so. I've only ever had one go faulty, which was right at the end of its 3 year warranty period. The customer service was superb - I arranged the return online, and I had a free replacement in 3 days. For a small fee, they will even send a replacement out same day and then you return the faulty one at your leisure.I always buy Seagate. They always come with 5 year warranties, and they seem to perform nicely all around. Something I can't say about the WD disks ive owned.
I'll agree Seagate arent the quietest drives
Western Digital drives have treated me the best and have awesome performance, but maybe I am just lucky.I have probably had around 20 WD drives. Everyone of them did funny things or straight up didnt work / crashed and burned. I'll agree Seagate arent the quietest drives, but they don't fail me like WD does.
If you're just looking to add an extra drive to your Mac Pro, the only 'enterprise' feature you will benefit from is the warranty.
Don't you benefit from the longer MTBF?
Depends.Does the lack of error correction actually do you harm on a desktop workstation?
Yes.
Depends.
Yes if you use it as a separate drive on the main controller. (Logic Board)
No if used with a RAID controller, which is what they were designed for.
Hmm... So is the higher MTBF gain worth the error checking loss? Sorry if this is an annoying question. I Just don't know much about these drives for a standard desktop...