Pros: Fast. Quiet. Cheap. Newegg delivers quickly.

Cons: Not "Whisper Quiet". More like "Stage Whisper Quiet". Also, drive emitted ominous rattle/whirring within first few hours. Since then, nothing. Maybe it was breaking itself in ...

Overall Review: This is an OEM product. You'll need to download DataLifeguard from Western Digital website to partition and format the drive. Installed this drive in a Dell E510. Make sure you enter the setup screen (hit F2 during startup sequence) and check that SATA2 is *on*. The factory default is supposed to be "on" but on my machine it was "off". So DataLifeguard didn't detect the HD after I turned on the computer. As for the additional SATA data cable you might be purchasing: it's worth taking off the panel to your computer and checking to see if you would benefit from choosing a cable with an "L" shape at one end -- on my Dell E510 it would have been a real tight fit if both ends were the usual "straight" shape.

Pros: Extremely quiet. Cheap. No problems viewing burned DVDs on my six year old set top DVD player.

Cons: The drive casing was slightly dented in the back as if it had been dropped ... ?!

Overall Review: This is an OEM product -- so no installation manual will be included. I installed this burner as a second drive on my Dell E510. It didn't work the first time around because (1) I didn't enter setup (hit F2 during startup) to enable the drive and (2) I didn't have the jumper settings on the burner set correctly. Fortunately, this is all explained fairly cleary in the following document: "NEC_DVD_CD_quickstartguide.pdf". After setting the jumpers correctly and making sure to enable the drive, everything works just fine.