Pros: Faster than my SATA-I Seagate 250gb 7200.8 (at least in formatting and installs). Enough space to work well as an OS and backup drive. No seeking noise at all from what I can tell over 2 quiet 120mm fans, a 120x38 Sanyo Denki (using a rheostat controller), and a quiet 92mm fan and minimal vibration. It's quick, and I don't have to deal with the noise I've experienced with a certain competitor's drives in the recent past. The drive is running a boot sector scan at 38C max behind a low-rpm 120mm fan in a 72F room at the moment. Probably overkill for a desktop machine but it was only a few bucks more than the non-enterprise model. Great warranty as well. No bad sectors found and no issues with installation on known-good hardware.

Cons: None so far. If it suddenly fails I'll be RMA-ing and posting a new review here, but everything seems fine on this end currently.

Overall Review: I was originally going to buy a 500gb Seagate drive for the extra storage, but as many of the recent reviews for those drives have been mixed I decided to wait it out for the time being. Can't complain about this one though. I was introduced to Seagate drives four years ago when I inherited an OEM Compaq box with an 80gig 7200.7. That drive is still running flawlessly and I hope I can expect the same performance out of this one.

Pros: bought 2 for RAID 0 drives run fast not a single problem with install. Also got a IDE version for internal USB backup drive and not a prob with it either great setup to ghost your RAID to. this is part of Seagates mission critical large business server drive line as is all other drives with the "ES" tag

Cons: none

Overall Review: always had good luck with Seagate this is more of there usual quality.

Pros: Very smooth and easy to install, run and setup as Seagate is the new WD. More options and much faster for it's pricing! Very satisfied with Seagate's track record with excellent customer service.

Cons: None!

Pros: Seagate

Cons: China drives are terrible.

Overall Review: If you get a drive that says Made in China, return it. It will break. Seagate also makes drives in Taiwan which are much higher quality.

Pros: Running two of these hard drives in a RAID 0 array achieves a 5.8 or 5.9 rating out of 5.9 for performance testing in Windows Vista. From my experience with other Seagate products, I expect excellent life on these drives. Great value.

Cons: No problems so far.

Overall Review: I can not speak for others but it may be good to look into the trouble other people have had with the Chinese-made version of this exact drive (mine were made in Taiwan).

Pros: This is the second one of these that I've bought from here recently. The first one's still running great and this one checked out fine in HDTune and SMART tests. HDTach reports 135MB/s burst, 13m/s random access, and 70MB/s average read speeds. The other identical drive reports nearly identically in HDTach. No complaints with the new drive.

Cons: Could be faster, but for what I need it for it's great.

Pros: The shipping to send it back for replacement was free.

Cons: Hard drive was dead on arrival. Was making extremely loud clicking noises. Had to send off for replacement which put me at great inconvenience.

Overall Review: If it had worked I would recommend. As it didn't I can't recommend it.

Pros: Customer service was great following a little misshap. They care about what they sell and pride themselves on finding older and harder to find hard drives.

Cons: It took me calling them out and send an email to get any status on my missing hard drive.