Pros: Super quiet, low power consumption. Rocking in my HTPC for the last month.

Cons: None yet

Pros: Big, works perfectly.

Cons: Drive is only 5400 RPM, and this fact is left out of the specifications.

Overall Review: I love Newegg, but this is the first time I've felt disappointed with a purchase from them. Part of the reason I bought this drive was because it was big and the specifications said this drive was suitable for a DVR environment. In fact, it says it is suitable for 12 simultaneous HD streams. I've found this to not be true. I tried using this drive in a HD-DVR application, and it cannot even handle two streams. Now, part of this is my fault for not researching extensively enough and not realizing that the Western Digital Green line is only 5400 RPM, and not understanding that right now there are no SATA drives over 1TB that are 7200 RPM. But it's pretty false to state that these drives are good for HD streams, and in DVR applications. Only get this drive if your DVR is SD (the only way this drive is going to record 12 simultaneous streams, as the specs state, is if they're QVGA streams). Consequently, I'll instead use this drive for backup, for which it is perfect.

Pros: Very quiet, low vibration, cool temperatures

Cons: none

Overall Review: I bought this drive after trying to find the best DVR/PVR type drive for my home server that is on 24/7. Only a few came up but the Seagate seem to poorly built now-a-days, Samsung was hard to find the correct version, and the Western Digital which I have always had good luck with. I stream video from this drive across my network and the results have been very good.

Pros: Big. Cheap.

Cons: I bought 4 of these for a RAID system. Right off the bat some specialized software (zfs) detected silent data corruption errors on one of the disks. After a few months another disk started failing in a way that made it nearly impossible to recover the data. After booting from DOS and using some little known software from WD I was able to recover most of my data but I expect that most users would not be willing or able to go to these lengths. There are several known problems with these drives. 1) The drive heads park too often which will cause them to fail with a year or two. If you have the tools you can read the S.M.A.R.T. data off of these drives and seed the number of times the heads have been parked. My drives showed about 68K parks after only a few months of usage. The drives are expected to fail after 300K parks. You can work around this by booting to DOS and running WDs tool for changing the park timeout. 2) These drives are not good in a RAID environment. TBC

Overall Review: They are not designed for RAID. You can make them more RAID compatible by using a tool called WDTLER.EXE in DOS to reduce the error timeout limit, if you can find it. 3) Too many of these drives fail early. Do you really want to trust 1.5GB of data to a faulty drive?

Pros: 1.36TB after NTFS formatting. Extremely Quiet. Low power consumption. Great streaming drive over home networks.

Cons: Nothing yet!

Overall Review: Bought this with the Rosewill RX-358-S SLV SATA to eSATA enclosure. Great combination. Recommended for anyone that wants an external with a reliable drive and fanned enclosure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173043

Pros: Quiet. Cool.

Cons: No cons but one of the 2 drives I got failed the S.M.A.R.T test when I put it in my NAS. the replacement worked fine.

Overall Review: I have 2 of these drives in a Raid 1 config on my D-link DNS-321 NAS. These drive run at a cool 102 deg F. These drives are fast enough to run my Patriot Box Office Media Player.

Pros: * Whisper quiet. * Plenty fast for the application. * Low power

Cons: * They tend to run hot without proper cooling I GIVE 2 EGGS FOR NEWEGG SHIPPING. Bubble wrapped and in a box w/ peanuts. The peanuts were worthless as the drive bounced around to the bottom of the box so that all the peanuts were on top of the drive. Having read other reviews I expected that so I bought 1 dive from Newegg and the other 5 from other outlets. Newegg, please figure out a better way to ship bare drives!

Overall Review: These drives are performing better than expected in my application. I built a 6-disc Linux software RAID-50 NAS system with these drives. My primary concerns were low power consumption and quiet operation. Media streaming from a NAS does not require blazing speed and these drive are up to the task. There are 6 in the case and I cannot hear them running, even when under a full load. When operating continuously for more than about 30 minutes they will get very hot so add adequate cooling. I saw 55C on all 6 when building the array before I got a larger case with better cooling. I now have 2 120mm fans blowing across the 6 drives and temps are 25C/33C idle/load. They are designed to be left on 24/7 and since I'm not hammering away at the array 99% of the time they should hold up just fine.

Pros: Perfect upgrade for your DirecTV HD-DVR hard drive (HR-2x series, at least) from the OEM 500GB. Since the DTV DVR boxes always access the drive, using a quiet, low power drive like this one is a must! I originally tried a 1TB Black label (WD1001FALS) but the performance drives are too loud and it was too distracting while watching programs.

Cons: If you are using this drive in a PC (Which it is NOT suited for) you have to tell the BIOS to allow the drive at least 15sec to spin-up and initialize, or it may not be properly detected by all HDD controllers

Overall Review: This drive is in the same product line (WD-AV series) as the OEM drive in my DVR, providing ultra quiet, reliable 24/7 always on operation.