Pros: It is great to have a 5 year warranty, but I am beginning to think they need it in order to keep customers.

Cons: It worked for two years then went bad. I am RMA'ing as we speak.

Other Thoughts: Very disappointed. I still have the 7200 speed Hard Drive that I put back in and still work.

These run hot. I am wondering if this was the basic issue. I am not sure.

Pros: + Looks sexy
+ Love the 'IcePack'
+ Runs pretty quiet
+ Runs nice and cool
+ Awesome in Raid0
++ Definately faster than my previous Seagate 1.5 TB Barracuda @ 7200 rpm

HD Tune (Read)
+ Transfer rate: 170~ MB/s
+ Access time: 5.33 ms
+ Burst rate: 160~ MB/s

Cons: They're not solid states...[?]

Other Thoughts: +1 to Newegg's awesome shipping!
Free shipping and got them the next day (NJ->NY)! ^^
Also, they were on sale for $99 so had to get two!
I have them in Raid0 and I can definately see a performance increase (although WEI maintains the same 5.9 rating... -_-)

Pros: Easy Install, Easy Formatting, and Great Results! We put this thing in an old school Dell d3000 desktop, and it now runs windows xp faster than ever. This machine is used by our admin asst, and she now doesn't complain about the speed of her system when using programs like ACT!, MS Office and Peachtree.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: much cheaper for us to buy this hard drive than to buy a new computer.

Pros: Drives are def fast! Grabbing 2 of these isn't unresonable money wise. Once raided, you approach speeds of most SSDs at a resonable price!

Cons: My experience has yielded my opinion of them unreliable. I bought two with the intention of striping them together. Raided easily but one of my drives failed 3 times. I'm writing this to give fair warning to all prospecting buyers! Heating seems to be an issue even with the attached heat sink they provide. Didn't go liquid cooling (yet) but I have the antec 902 case so cooling shouldn't be an issue considering the amount of air flow this case pushes. Two out of the three failures my raid manager reported a drive failure, and failed to boot a few shut downs after. RMA's start adding up after many replacements!

Other Thoughts: Western digital was unwilling to return drives for money (replacement only). Working in retail you see this request come up a lot, and I find it unfair to push this back on them except I've run through the RMA process multiple times and have still not received a stable, working product. So needless to say I will be doing a final RMA on BOTH drives and will be marketing my two drives. Ended up purchasing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233107 as a replacement to having 2 of these raptors raided.

Pros: Very Fast Drive. My computer boots in about in 20 seconds.
Neweggs shipping is great! Received the drive the next day.

Cons: Sorry Newegg, this is a con towards you. This is the second drive I purchased and every time I buy one it goes on sale the next week when I do not need it. This has happened twice now.

Other Thoughts: My wife's hard drive went out and she wanted the same thing that I had.
Motherboard: MSI K9N4 SLI AMD 5000+
Memory: Corsair XMS 2 X 1GB
Video: Evga 8600GTS 256MB
Case: Antec Sonata 3 w/500W power supply

Pros: Four in RAID 0 on ICH9R controller HD Tach v 3.0.4.0 Windows XP Pro SP3 Burst speed 3850.8 MB/s Random access 8.1 milliseconds CPU utilization 7% Average read 368.5 MB/s Cache and write back enabled Raid array not yet defragged after copying back to the array from the SSD

VS

Single OCZ Vertex 2 60GB burst speed 245.4 MB/s random access .2 ms CPU utilization 2 % Average read 171.3 MB/s

Cons: HD Tach is outdate. need another bench tool No beef with the drives though

Other Thoughts: Going to put windows 7 on here so i can trim the SSD and maybe get anorther SSD in RAID but running out of SATA connectors...maybe a RAID card...but the reviews don't impress me

Pros: very fast hardrive works quietly

Cons: no cons

Pros: Newegg had this HDD for 30% off, so I got it SUPER cheap. I have noticed a huge performance improvement from my 7200rpm SATA drive.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: None

Pros: Excellent HDD - fast, quiet, great install and, most of all - Smooth! And, very, very well priced.

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: We took the remains of a Dell and started with a new case, motherboard, processor, memory, etc, etc and made the last minute decision to get a 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor. We use the existing 640GB HDD for data storage. The whole system turned out great and the UPS shipping/tracking system is outstanding! Great job.

Pros: 3 years going strong. Gaming, 3d rendering and everyday downloading and file transfers. Quiet for such a fast drive. Worth the money and you will notice the speed increase right away. Perfect for file transfering and any type of scanning tool. Boot speeds have hit 19 seconds in an xp, core 2 duo 2.8 - 2GB RAM 800 envirment. At least 24 seconds windows 7, i5 4GB DDR3 1066.

Cons: Honestly heat would be a concern if by any chance your planning on putting this in a normal case with another hard drive above it. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Spend a lilttle more get a case that blows air on the HDD and put this one on top. I went over board and got extra cooling fans that hook up to the HDD, it performs even better.

Other Thoughts: If you need an idea of how fast these drives are compaired to the 7,200. The best way to discribe it would be putting dial up vs DSL. or loging on with AOL vs double clicking firefox. The speed is that noticable. Once you use 10K you won't go back to 7,200 i promise.