Pros: The drives are very fast; a four disk raid 0 stripe will sustain >260 megabytes/sec. They're cool and relatively quiet, too.

Cons: One of the 16 drives I bought silently corrupts data. It took a long time to diagnose. Another is dying a relatively quick death from S.M.A.R.T errors. The other 14 work great.

Overall Review: RAID cards protect against whole drive failures, not against drive corruption. If you get a bad drive like I did, raid 5 will not help you. Caveat Emptor!

Pros: Cheap, quiet, fast, reliable. Great drives.

Cons: None after more than a year in use.

Overall Review: I've been running an older 80gb version of this drive for over 2 years and 2 of these 250gb's in a RAID 0 array for over a year, all with not even a hiccup in performance or reliabilty in all that time. I don't understand why so many have seen problems with these, but they have been perfect for me...

Pros: I'm not a hard drive connoisseur, but these definitely are the quietest drives I own. The performance is great, especially considering the price. Definitely faster than older drives I own.

Cons: None come to mind. For those complaining about no accessories, buy retail, not OEM.

Overall Review: I read lots of reviews. There are faster SATA 250GB drives out there, but these are supposed to be the quietest and coolest in this category. Considering the measurable speed differences are not much I don’t think it makes any noticeable difference in real work use. I hope they stay reliable. I may buy one or two more in the future when the price drops.

Pros: Had this drive for over a year, and it runs absolutely perfect. Does not get hot at all. Samsung makes good products.

Cons: If you are writing a bunch of info at once you might be able to hear it. LOL

Overall Review: This thing has chugged along great for over a year. I have it partitioned into 3 drives. It has never gave me any problems whatsoever. Want another one to stripe with.

Pros: good drive, fast and quiet. cache is small, but you wont notice a speed difference unless you bench.

Cons: nothing

Overall Review: even lexus makes a lemon. hard drives have higher failure rates than any other component. that is why you back up your data. samsung has a shorter warranty, true. but not because they design these things to last a year and 2 months. its because they are a bottom line company and people are going to buy their drives anyway. if speed and silence are more important to you, buy this drive, if having the security blanket of a longer warranty is what you want, get something else.

Pros: SATA II, noiseless, and cheap.

Cons: none so far.

Pros: Quiet. Cool. Fast.

Cons: It cannot make a peanut butter sandwich without assistance.

Overall Review: Got this drive to replace a Seagate SATA 250g - it's much quieter, much cooler. I'm very happy.

Pros: A fast reliable hard drive if you get a good one. Ive never heard ill word of this hard drive and never seen any of these fail. By chance that happens, most problems would occur in the first year of owning a hard drive. The standard warranty is 3 years on this. And lets not forget the price... very good

Cons: The person below me had a HD failure after 2 months. I always back up my hard drive bi-yearly and backup important files monthly. If a failure does happen, its not that devastating. And with the 3 year warranty standard, everything is usually replacable.

Overall Review: If you happen to have a problem and your past RMA from newegg... call the company and make a fuss, they will provide both way shipping too if you make too much of a fuss.