Pros: Great for media center storage or every day usage. These drives combined with HDD Guardian will keep going for a long time. Great $/GB at the time.

Cons: Firmware had issues in some facilities, make sure you check for any updates your drives may need after ordering! If you don't get the update they act like the WD Greens that constantly moved the heads and destroyed themselves.

Pros: Cheap, good for starting a build, no bad sectors or issues yet.

Cons: Ran a little loud when I first started using it, but made sure to grab the firmware update from the Seagate website so the discs didn't break themselves. Post-update it runs quiet.

Pros: Sold it for cash, not a huge amount (nobody really wanted this game) but it made up for some of the shipping costs.

Cons: Nobody wanted this game, hence why it was given away.

Pros: Large drive, not a huge cost, decent read/write speeds. Can handle some punishment due to its casing, but it's still just a hard drive.

Cons: Large, unstackable, and not even supposed to place on a desktop case. Also was a bit overpriced for an external drive, but the WD brand name was alluring.

Pros: Simple RAM with not a lot of perks, but it does what it needs to for every day computing.

Cons: Nothing spectacular about it. Kingston makes durable products that do what their specs say, expect no more.

Pros: This laptop has quite a bit of power for calculations and such. Its hard drive capacity was more than enough for 4 years of college for me. It has a fairly large screen with nice differences in brightness between settings. The stock battery typically lasted 4-6 hours at the start and now lasts more like 3-4. 4 GB of RAM is nice for any laptop.

Cons: This year the fan is finally dying. I kept the laptop clean and took it apart multiple times per year to ensure there was no dust accumulation and this helped keep heat down. The one fan inside has a non serviceable bearing, making the original lubrication the only thing keeping it spinning. This is an issue, as any warping or offset in fan spin will cause it to rapidly break down. Fans are relatively cheap, but a fan that was serviceable would have given an egg back. Also, not having a GPU makes this laptop basically useless for any drawing programs, gaming, or simulation. Price - get a desktop with better specs for less if you don't need to take a pc to class.

Overall Review: Overall a good buy for a college-going individual. Not the best laptop, but it's durable and has nice features.