Pros: Technologically, Seagate is leading the field with perpendicular recording, and for this new technology they seem to have done a good job with the performance relative to other vendors and capacity of their drives is on par with everyone else. (Save the new 1.5TB recently announced)

Cons: Out of six drives purchased in a two month period, I had two fail within three months of installation. Part of a RAID set, so bought two more for on the shelf spares, as even two days waiting on replacement is too great a risk with that failure rate.

Overall Review: If you do need to RMA to Seagate after a failure, go ahead and pay extra for the advance replacement. It gets you the replacement drive within two to three days, and pays for the return shipping too.

Pros: Its flat, and the mouse rolls over it.

Cons: Even in an order of several hundred dollars, still appears to cost four to ship.

Pros: Relatively quiet and moves adequate volume of air for my needs. LEDs are moderately bright when new.

Cons: I bought 4 two years ago, 3 for the case and a spare. I didn't really notice over time that the LEDs got dimmer, until i had one stop spinning and replaced it, now with the new one in place, the others look out of place, and light output is really weak.

Overall Review: Cost is low enough to replace periodically just to be proactive before failure. I'm actually surprised a sleeve fan lasted so long in 24x7 use.

Pros: Technologically, Seagate is leading the field with perpendicular recording, and for this new technology they seem to have done a good job with the performance relative to other vendors and capacity of their drives is on par with everyone else. (Save the new 1.5TB recently announced)

Cons: Out of six drives purchased in a two month period, I had two fail within three months of installation. Part of a RAID set, so bought two more for on the shelf spares, as even two days waiting on replacement is too great a risk with that failure rate.

Overall Review: If you do need to RMA to Seagate after a failure, go ahead and pay extra for the advance replacement. It gets you the replacement drive within two to three days, and pays for the return shipping too.

Pros: Amazing deal, and the best of any burner I've ever purchased. It burns everything as advertized. Mine did come with the OEM version of Nero, though some people don't seem to receive it. (This is certainly variances in manufacturer packaging and NOT NewEgg's fault). Be prepared to NOT receive it, and you'll be pleasantly surprised if you do.

Cons: Be sure to turn off the "MagicSpeed" low-noise mode for faster READ access, it is enabled by defalut. (Does not apply to WRITE speed, which is always set by the recording software) Check the manufacturer web site for details.

Overall Review: If your recording times are outragiously high, be sure you have the latest firmware, that your system BIOS and OS are set to DMA mode and not PIO, and use an 80-pin IDE cable. If it is still slow, check everything again, as it is much more likely a settings issue than a hardware problem with the drive itself.

Pros: Works well enough (so far), we'll see how long it lasts.

Cons: Every brand of cathode tube light sold on here is really made by the same manufacturer, all identical except the packaging. Might as well buy the cheapest one.