Pros: Frankly speaking, it feels like any other 7,200 RPM hard drive. I upgraded from a Western Digital Blue and it only feels a tiny tiny bit faster.

Cons: Booting up the OS on this drive is pretty slow. It's as if it's always in power saving (lower performance) mode.

Pros: Ran perfectly fine with good stable write speeds and was fairly cheap as I caught it on sale for $45

Cons: bout a month and a half ago I started noticing my downloads taking way longer than normal. When observing the disk activity I noticed it was started to hang up on downloads as the write speed was jumping all over the map. maybe I just got a defective one, but had to knock off 2 eggs for the short life span

Pros: Worked as supplied in my Tivo DVR

Cons: Started fruiting out about 3 months ago, now fails every test in the DVR, lags out. Was maybe 3.5 years old max.

Other Thoughts: since I didn't want the next one to only last 3.5 yrs I bought a different model.

Pros: Bought three of these. One for three different security DVRs that needed extra storage. They are working great so far. The run cool and play video back without any issues.

Cons: None that I have seen so far.

Other Thoughts: These are being replaced by the WD's Purple line of hard drives. The 1TB Purple version is pretty much the same thing as this. Just has a purple label on it.

Pros: Pros: Read\Write speed is fantastic. Very quiet.

Cons: Failed within the first eight months - Several sectors went bad, disc repair cannot amend the issue, drive is complete junk at this point.

Other Thoughts: Thinking I just got a bad egg, really, but I can't give this more than two stars considering how quickly it failed, and the amount of data I had on it when it did so.

Pros: none.

Cons: Maybe this is just bad one, but its really slow. My old computer which is 5 years old HD runs faster than this piece of junk. 200gb used and its already being a slug....

Crashed on me twice already.... i've had WD drives before and they were much better than this one.. not sure if its this model or the brand went to you know where...

Other Thoughts: Don't buy it.

Pros: Fast and quiet while it worked.

Cons: Died after 8 months of not everyday use. Used primarily as a B/U drive, so there was no stress involved

Other Thoughts: I have a WD hard drive that has been spinning up daily for over 4 years without so much as a blip. What's up with the new WDs that they conk out so quickly?

Pros: Have had good luck with WD drives. Good drive. Good price.

Cons: None.

Pros: Nice, robust, well designed drive - I use it for audio and video editing and streaming - works perfectly - will buy more as needed - I have finally found a drive for this specific use.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Could be cheaper :)

Pros: I bought this for my "LaView LV-KD3484B" surveillance system. It worked just as it should. Fast hard drive with the 64mb cache. I'll be re-reviewing this item once I've been using it for a month or so since it will be used 24/7.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: NewEgg's packaging has improved immensely, not like it was ever bad. But the hard drive came in a very nice thick bubble package.
Thanks NewEgg!