Pros: FAST, quiet, large capacity, and seems reliable. This is my second X300 hard drive and the first one is still going as well as the day I bought it. I bought another one since the the first has treated me so well now for over 4 years and the new one is even larger and faster. I can't find any flaw with these drives and would recommend them for ANY gamer who stores and installs their games to a large mechanical drive. I've not noticed ANY difference in gaming with these verses an SSD drive at all and the read/write speeds are plenty fast for both gaming and media/file transfers. I LOVE them and will continue buying them so long as they keep making them!

Cons: None that I can find.

Overall Review: Great drives for storing games, running games from, and media or file storage. They are fast enough to keep up with anything you throw at them and you can save money while having a lot more space to store large games these days. You won't notice that the games aren't running from an SSD with these drives and file transfers/daily use are plenty fast enough for the average user. These exceed my expectations in every way.