Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: bought 4 of these - they all work fine. these DO NOT get unusually hot as some people have said. also, they ARE NOT noisy. I have about 8 other hdd's and these function about the same as the rest.

Cons: I was a little hesitant to purchase these because of some of the bad reviews on here. any hdd manufacturer is going to have some hdds that die, it's inevitable. I checked seagates reviews because they are supposedly 'the best'. they have about the same number of bad reviews due to DOA drives. I've only had these for about a week, if they die I will write another review

Overall Review: I choose the highest technical rating I could because I see plenty of people on here who've chosen higher tech ratings and yet they don't understand some basic concepts about these. THIS DRIVE WILL AND SHOULD FORMAT TO 698GB. the math is simple 750GB = 750,000,000,000bytes divide that by 1024 and you get how many KB in windows, again and you get MB, once more and you get GB (698.49193096160888671875). it's not 750 x 1000 / 1024....

Pros: Good price for a 750G drive. WD is usually pretty reliable.

Cons: I ordered 4 of these from Newegg the last time they were on sale. 1 was DoA and sent back to Newegg, which took a month to replace. As soon as that drive was returned, a second drive died. I had the second drive swapped by WD, who only took a week to replace it. The drives from Newegg were manufactured mid-2007 and the one from WD was less than 1 month old, which means they were probably sitting around in a warehouse somewhere or it was a bad batch of drives.

Overall Review: Make sure you download the drive diagnostics tools from WD and thoroughly test these drives before trusting them with your data.