Pros: This particular HDD came in my HP Pavilion laptop. The laptop is now going on 4 years old, and has had more than its share of use. This hard drive is almost twice as fast as the 5400 rpm HDD that is in another one of my laptops; though, its not quite as fast as a SSD. I have never had a problem with it, its been extremely reliable. It also handles every sort of bump, bounce, and drop that its been through. I do not know why all the bad reviews. It seems I've experienced exactly the opposite from all of the others. Normally when looking at reviews, you see that some people have obviously received "a bad one out of the batch." It seems that in this case I received the only "good one out of the batch."

Cons: None

Overall Review: Although this has given me zero problems, and seems to work flawlessly; I would be skeptical about purchasing one based on all of the other reviews.