Pros: Hitachi drives are the best on the market in SATA and SAS and SCSI, especially the enterprise models, but I have never had a consumer Hitachi fail either, and I have had hundreds of Seagates fail, and to a lesser amound, WD's.

Cons: none, don't own it yet, but all my failure are now Seagate and lower end WD.

Overall Review: this was prompted by daveinca giving a low rating b/c his controller would not see the drive, pretty dumb dave. Try another controller b4 commenting next time. Hitachi's are the best drives made. IBM drives for years were from Hitachi. The only one I had fail in 15 years was an older 4.5 gig SCSI which I dropped on asphalt, spilled coke on,and my puppy chewed on it in the mud..and it still ran for a year after that, tested it to see after failing to another drive for backup.

Pros: it will turn on, it's a pin posh swtch,but for you it was obviously an intelligence test that you failed over a period of months. Very Scary, but I am guessing you are a Voter and love to put those people on the hill....

Cons: no cons

Overall Review: no other thoughts outside of "eugenics".