Joined on 10/16/08
Fast, high capacity
Pros: Blazing fast transfer rates, great for large files. Low cost per TB. Excellent company to work with for RMAs. I have been very satisfied with WD over the years. Spins up quickly, and is almost always above 50MB/s, sometimes as high as 90MB/s when transferring to/from an appropriately fast source.
Cons: None really. They get warm in long consecutive transfers (like they all do).
Overall Review: Excellent drive, this is my third (no failures, they're just great at what they do).
A little lacking
Pros: You do get a decent variety of screws.
Cons: They really could put a few more in the case. How much should screws really cost?
Overall Review: The container keeps the screws organized and closes up tightly.
Works as it should
Pros: Multiple ports, powered, comes with most accessories I could want.
Cons: So light it tends to fall over / be weighed down funny by the cables that are plugged into it. There's tons of things you can use to stick it safely to your desk, though, for quite cheap.
Blazingly fast
Pros: Ridiculously fast startup times. Transfer rates are unprecedentedly fast. Sequential read speed of 380MB/s, sequential write of 247MB/s. Utterly insane. Installed games load so fast that I can't read the 'load screen' tips and tricks that they put in to distract you from the load times. 256 GB is plenty of capacity for most users' needs for programs and such. Get a cheap, enormous hard drive for file storage (and less important programs) and you'll be fine. Remember this is a laptop-sized drive physically, not the 3.5" desktop sized drive (like most SSDs), and this one comes with the bracket necessary to install it. You will be a convert to SSDs once you try this. Everything is faster, even things you didn't know that the bottleneck was the HDD. You even get a good amount of storage per dollar spent, when you factor in the ridiculous speed. Packaging is excellent. These drives aren't prone to shock (dropping) damage anyway... but still.
Cons: None. You'll want another for your every computer you've got.
Overall Review: Ensure that you format them properly, there are tons of guides on how to ensure this happens right. It's pretty easy once you actually go through and do it.
Worked well.
Pros: It did what it should and has caused no problems. There is plenty here for more than one application, as well. If you're going to get something, might as well be something that works well - and this has held up admirably.
Cons: Non.e
Does what it should
Pros: Works as advertised, whitout being loud. Works fine. I forget I have it (which means it works perfectly without drawing attention to itself by failing at what it should work for).
Cons: None, realy.
Great battery as advertised
Shipping was prompt, battery was exactly as described and looks like it's a new OEM battery - just as I wanted. Debating buying a second one! Thanks.