Joined on 03/13/07
Another Great from WD
Pros: Fast, Quiet, 5 year warranty. Single platter. Currently getting 126 MB/s avg. reads over SATA 150!
Cons: None so far. If this drive lives as long as it's predecessor has, there will be no cons!
Overall Review: Cloned my old WD2500JD over to this drive without a hitch. The old drive is still going strong, but it's 7 years old and used every day! It made sense to pro-actively replace it before it went belly up. I have always had excellent results with Western Digital drives and have no reason to believe this one will be anything but awesome.
The verdict is out
Pros: It's really inexpensive.
Cons: 4 pin side is a tight fit... concerned about damaging my camcorder's plug.
Overall Review: If your el-cheapo cable destroys your not-so-cheap camcorder, the cable is not so cheap after all!
Does what it's meant to do for the price
Pros: Good transfer speeds on USB 3.2
Cons: Seems to want to run at USB 2.0 speeds even on USB 3.1
Overall Review: For the price, this device is fine.
Good, cheap cooling
Pros: Low price, effective. Keeping my C2D E7400 at 30C idle and mid to high 30s under a load.
Cons: Only a 3 wire connector so no PWM (fan speed control) which means it isn't the quietest cooler ever.
Overall Review: Since Intel says my CPU will stay healthy up to 74C, I would prefer to let it get a little warmer and keep the noise down by being able to lower the fan speed, but, for the price, there's really nothing to complain about with this cooler.
Solid so far
Pros: Huge capacity, fast for a mechanical drive, single platter (less to go wrong), quiet, runs super cool.
Cons: Only a 2 year warranty, not intended for RAID setups (which doesn't affect me in this application), 1TB of data is a lot to loose if you don't have redundancy.
Overall Review: This was an absolute steal on Black Friday. If you have a bunch of music and movies and pictures, just make sure you also have them backed up on another drive. Drives do and will fail! It is just the nature of things.
Better than expected
Pros: Good sound reproduction, great bass, comfortable, inexpensive
Cons: Probably not for true audiophiles, but good for those of us with average hearing capabilities.
Overall Review: So cheap with the Black Friday deal... I should have bought another pair.