Western Digital Elements 1TB Desktop External Hard Drive

Pros: -1 TB of external storage for pretty cheap
-Completely silent
-Runs very cool
-Have had no problems in over 1 year using this as a daily backup drive

Cons: -Too slow to be anything other than a Backup drive. Even then, you are probably better off trying to find a USB 3.0 Drive if you can.
-If you have a lot of data, you'll need more than 1 TB to handle daily backups. I have < 250 GB of data and have Windows 7 handle the backup daily. Every month or two so I have to clean out some old backups.

None of this was a big con - I don't have much data, and I don't have a USB 3.0 mobo.

Overall Review: I highly recommend this drive to anyone who wants to do backups for < 500 GB of data, or who just needs a big external drive to stick music/pictures/videos on.

If you need to run daily backups on 500GB+ of data, I would recommend getting at least a 2TB backup drive.

If you have a mobo to support it - get a USB 3.0 HDD instead of this.

Pros: Quiet.
Easy to use (PnP).
Worked for several months.

Cons: HDD failure.
Failed diagnostic.
Failed SMART.
No longer writes, very slow read.

Overall Review: Second HDD I've bought from Western Digital that has randomly failed.