Pros: Everyone this is an excellent external HD for those who want to backup or need that extra space without putting a hole in your wallet. People seem to not know for some reason but there is a power button right on the front of the HD, the button is the circle green light. You can turn it on and off anytime you want once its plugged into your computer. The HD itself is ready to go out of the box with 320gigs in FAT32 formatt. Its once after you formatt it to NTFS that you'll end up with about 300gigs. If you don't know why, google it. No heat issues, quiet, sturdy, and easy to use. Basically plug n play style. If you have any problems, I highly recommend you read the manual, has all the answer you need there. example, how to formatt a FAT32 to NTFS. etc etc. No CD required, once you plug the USB in, it installs all software for you automatically, the add-ons like google stuff are optional to install. Design looks cool, not as thin as the other HD i've seen, but cool nevertheless..

Cons: Nothing I can think of. I know some people were complaing about not being able to turn on the HD without plugging the USB into a computer, but why would you want it turned on if it wasn't? I think its a great security ability that the HD only turns on when its plugged in because it reduces any chance of leaving it on by accident, you know heat. Plus once its plugged into your computer, you can turn if off or on with the push button or use the program to turn it off. I prefer the program, it prompts you when you can turn it off and shuts off automatically. Just a much safer way of doing things. Also it turns off automatically when your computer shuts down. But I won't deal with that since my computer is on 24/7. Happy shopping!

Overall Review: Since its a WD I'm hoping its reliability is just as good as its user friendly design, I recommend it but I always say, research on your own frist before anything else.

Pros: Great Product, Big Capacity, Fast, SooooOOOooo easy to use. the people who are having problems with turning this thing on and off are missing the fact that the one and only button on the drive is a power button, It does power up/down with the system, but you can turn it on and off whenever you feel like it by pressing the giant circle on the front. tough & stable, also, it looks friggin sweet

Cons: a little larger than some externals, and only USB 2, no Firewire. oh, and it comes default as FAT32, so it takes a bit of waiting on it to reformat to NTFS, but its easy to do.

Overall Review: I would buy this drive again in a second, I have owned countless other externals and few have given me less hassle than this drive, you plug it in and it works. dont be fooled by the few scattered low reviews, this drive is exactly as advertised.

Pros: Very easy to use (plug 'n play); dependable, cool, quiet running hard drive.

Cons: Because of the lack of a firewire port on this particular model, transfer speeds only reach about 30MB/S. This model also boots with your computer, which is somewhat annoying.

Overall Review: Good quailty hard drive, excellent if you need extra space. No backup software included.

Pros: Sleek and great looking. I have it sideways on top of my tower, and it matches quite well. I used it mainly for reformatting,and for transferring between multiple computers. The speeds are good, and everything works like it should.

Cons: I've had it for two months of near-constant usage, and no problems have arised.

Overall Review: Great for the price, and does what it should. As always, NewEgg's service is superb.

Pros: No real pros to this product other than it is what I expected.

Cons: The unit DOES NOT come with backup software!!! The description is false and needs to be changed.

Pros: Fast, small, very easy to install/use.

Cons: Makes some noise when processing data but isn't annoying.

Pros: This Hard Drive is aesthetically pleasing, quiet, and seems to run cool. Love the Black and Green, everything else I have for my computer are those colors as well, so it matches nicely.

Cons: Seems to be tempermental when it comes to moving it when using it, but how often is it not siting stationary when you use it. USB isn't the fastest interface format, but you make do when you don't have a Firewire port. I transferred several Gigabytes at about 10~12 MB/s.

Overall Review: When I first plugged it in, Windows (Vista) wouldn't recognize it. It took a couple times of un-plugging it and re-plugging it in to work. Once Windows recognized it and I got it formatted it works fine now. As other reviews have said it only formats (NTSF) to 298GB, but that is expected. Also the Power Button does work just fine to turn it off if you don't want it on. To the review that said it's inconvienent to un-plug it so it doesn't turn on with the Computer, other external hard drives have switches in the back and you would still have to reach around to the back of the drive to switch it on or off, at least the power button on this drive is large and in front, if you can't find it you probably shouldn't rate yourself a 4 on tech level.

Pros: Smaller than I expected, quiet operation, turning on/off with the computer is actually a really nice feature- i don't have to turn it on or off, and it spins down the disk when not in use.

Cons: formatted, i only got 300gb.

Overall Review: great buy