Joined on 08/27/06
FAST! I love it!
Pros: As others have pointed out, these drives are basically just re-branded Hitachi 7200RPM drives. I just did a benchmark on the drive and it has a sequential read speed of 190MB/sec and a sequential write of 138MB/sec! That's insanely fast for a hard drive, I'm totally satisfied! It has a 3 year warranty and I've never really had any problems with Hitachi's internal hard drives, so I'm expecting that this one will be the same.
Cons: None
Overall Review: I bought one of these drives a month or two ago, and it showed up as a Hitachi drive in Device Manager (proof that it's just re-branded) This one shows up as Toshiba. So it looks like they finally got around to changing the firmware on the drive - but either way, it's the same guts and as I mentioned, it's still very fast.
Completely died on me!
Pros: It worked fine for about 7 months.
Cons: Completely died on me, now it always bluescreens my computer after only about 5 minutes, and it starts to smell like burning plastic. I can hear the fan spinning oddly, it's now super loud and doesn't work properly.
Overall Review: Fine for a low powered system but be warned this product probably won't even last an entire year.
Does Exactly What It Advertises
Pros: These gift cards can be used for almost anything, from Windows Store to Xbox Live. While it is true that you cannot use them to purchase an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you can buy games, DLC, and anything else from your Xbox which is what I use these prepaid cards for. There are separate subscription cards for Xbox Live Gold, the negative reviewers should have looked for those first. A definite huge plus is that NewEgg delivers these very quickly via email and doesn't charge any extra for the convenience. A $25 gift card is exactly $25 but saves you from having to drive down to a retail store to get one. A+ all around!
Cons: None, it's just a prepaid gift card.
Not a bad drive, but not the best
Pros: It's Western Digital. I don't care what people say, WD has some of the best lifespans of any hard drive manufacturer, and I have owned drives from all of the main ones, never had a single WD die on me.
Cons: Even though the drive is advertised as USB 3.0, and yes - I have USB 3.0 ports on my computer - it's very very slow. I have used other USB 3.0 external drives from other brands and they easily transfer twice as fast. This one bottlenecked around 35MB/sec, which is barely faster than USB 2.0!
Overall Review: Nothing against WD but these drives aren't very good. You're better off just taking the thing apart and mounting your hard drive internally, it'll be much faster.