Seagate BarraCuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Runs fast, and very quiet. My boot time was near 15 seconds with my old Hard Drive but after installing this drive my boot time dropped to less then 6 seconds and I now use my old HDD in an older backup computer, from now on I will use SATA drives exclusively. Buying this second drive so I can set up a Raid array :) I ordered last night and its being shipped today... Far Out! As always newegg will continue to be the only place I shop for computer components online.

Cons: A little tricky to get running outside of Raid array as a single onboard SATA drive (on my motherboard) but once I got it configured it was smooth sailing.

Overall Review: I recommend setting up raid array instead of single SATA drive whenever possible, it should make life easier.

Pros: Super fast...amazing difference between my old (recently purchased one month ago) ata 133. Installed XP pro in about 10 - 15 minutes once formatted etc.

Cons: I have none...I love it...

Overall Review: I will probably purchase another soon..

Pros: Excellent hard drive, bought it to replace a drive that crapped out on me, it's fast and quite. If you need a reliable drive, you couldn't ask for more than this.

Cons: Haven't found one yet.

Overall Review: Newegg shipped this product in under 3 days, same as usual. I like the choice between shipping companies now as well.

Comments: Well..i didnt think to much about these drives considering the mixed reviews but now that i have them HDtach rates them at 95.7 mb/s avg speed thats amazing! It even graphs them alomst as high as two western digital raptors running 10,000. I am running on a via8237 in raid 0 and it doesnt get any better than these... o did i mention5 year warranty and so quiet that you can barely tell they are there!

Pros: Good Hard Drive for the price. Seems to perform well.

Cons: A bit louder than some drives, but not a noisy drive.

Overall Review: Good drive for the price, be sure to buy a SATA data cable and a SATA power cable if necessary.

Pros: The drive works. It is free of defects. It is relatively quiet.

Cons: This drive refused to work in my MSI-KT4 Ultra-FISR motherboard with Windows, didn't try it in Linux. Attached it to the onboard raid fastrack 376 controller. The raid partition was erased every time I booted windows. Tried several driver, power cable, and bios combinations to no avail. Also caused frequent beeping, lockup, and slowdown while windows ran.

Overall Review: Works great in my new asus a8n-sli motherboard. Parallel version of drive also worked in old motherboard on promise fastrack 376 raid controller. The problem lied somewhere in windows<>*sata* raid<>drive compatibility.

Pros: good drive -not much more than ide

Cons: none yet

Overall Review: always used maxtor--but i like this drive

Pros: Very fast and stable. Max temp is about 30C, put a HD cooler on it and it's now at 22C. I went with Seagate almost entirely because of the 5 year warranty. I love how easy SATA is to work with compared to IDE.

Cons: As many have said before, it is a bit loud; by no means a coffee grinder but nowhere near as quiet as the Mxxxx Dxxxxx that I had a few years ago.

Overall Review: HD Tach clocks this drive at: 60MBs - 30MBs Sequential Read 128MBs Burst speed 12.4ms Random Access speed