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Pros: You can't attribute any Pros to a dead on arrival hard drive.
Cons: Well I am a big Seagate fan but this experience has soured me. I don't buy many spinning drives any more, I'm mostly SSD now. So when I go back and order a spinning drive and pay top dollar to get the best and its DOA that is a huge disappointment.
Other Thoughts: Just go SSD if you possibly can....
Pros: Good drive
Cons: Physical drive thickness.
Other Thoughts: There are other mentions that is drive is 1/2" thick. Take note because I was not concerned with the issue when I purchased the drive and it did not fit in my laptop.
Pros: These drives are rock solid. Doesn't matter where, if it needs a mechanical drive, it gets one of these. They run cool, quiet, and consistent.
Cons: None, although packaging could be better, as another reviewer said.
Other Thoughts: Cheap, as far as enterprise drives go
Pros: prob fast and packed to gills with chache,
Cons: Doesnt fit in PS3
Other Thoughts: or a Notebook maybe its good but i bought this for a PS3, i Called Seagate,NewEgg,Sony they all said it will fit even after giving them the measurements.
Pros: It weighs less than a desktop drive.
Cons: DOA. Doesn't even spin up. Not recognized by BIOS - in multiple machines. I expect DOA with cheap drives - this is an enterprise drive to be used in a server.
Other Thoughts:
I should know better than to order just one drive. While I've had good luck in the past, it has now run out (I usually buy WD, but this drive got lots of eggs and was at right price point for enterprise drive). This will be RMAd in the morning.
That said, I may be done ordering drives from Newegg. They were kind enough to put the drive in a box, inside bubble wrap, but it was NOT in an anti-static envelope. That would cost a whole penny, but would save the chance of a bad drive and RMA. While I don't know whether it was the issue here, this is the first time I've ever gotten a drive from Newegg that was not in anti-static.... and the first time I've gotten a DOA drive from Newegg. Drive packing has been iffy in the past - this time it's worse.
So instead of completing my new Linux box this weekend, it'll have to wait until sometime next week. Disappointing, even more so because the local competition doesn't stock enterprise-level drives.
Pros: I just can't say enough good about these drives. I really, really like them. The four I purchased back in 2011 are still going strong. I thought I was having problems with one of them and purchased another to replace it, but it turned out the problem was on the controller side and so all five drives are in great shape. I tested the drive in question extensively and could not break it. They run cool, perform fast and are very dependable. I am extremely happy with them after almost two years of heavy workstation usage.
Cons: Certainly none in my case. Cons for some users might be that they don't fit in a notebook or other mobile type device that use notebook drives. Additionally, they cost more than the usual notebook or desktop drives. But they deliver.
Other Thoughts: Until just a few weeks ago I was using these drives with old 3ware 8006-2LP RAID controllers. SATA I, no NCQ, etc. But these drives performed remarkably well in that setting. I have no regrets whatsoever about the drives. Over the last few weeks I have removed the 3ware cards and replaced them with a new IOCREST SY-PCX40009 controller, sold under the Syba brand, with a Silicon Image chipset. Now these drives are unrestrained with SATA II and NCQ support which will give them just about as much bandwidth as a conventional disk drive could ever require. On top of this I am running BtrFS filesystem RAID1 on a Mageia 3 (3.8 Kernel) Linux setup with a Supermicro C2SBX+ motherboard. Other than one minor bug with booting on BtrFS RAID, everything works perfectly. All my filesystems, including /boot and / are BtrFS RAID at this point. I have done repeated filesystem scrubs looking for write errors or data corruption and gotten "0 errors found" on every scrub. So the all hardware appears to be working perfectly. I am VERY satisfied with these drives!
Comments: Paid the extra bucks for durability. It will be a while before I know if it was worth it.
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Pros: Came sealed in cases. Quick delivery.
Cons: None so far