Western Digital Black WD1502FAEX 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Fast drive, works as it should.

Cons: None, so far.

Overall Review: I have no issues with the drive, but I did want to mention something I've seen here too many times. Someone at NewEgg needs to get a clue that it is bad business to ship hard drives the way this one was shipped to me. The box was fine, but putting a drive into a box and then putting crumpled paper on top of it is not sufficient to prevent damage in transit. Bare drives should really be wrapped in bubble wrap and immobilized. As it came, the drive was subject to impacts on the bottom of the box where there was zero paper and it was free to move around the box thereby banging all over the inside. Mine appears to be working fine, but I read of many DOA drives and most could probably be prevented if NE just put a little thought into how they ship hard drives, especially bare ones. I just hope mine won't suffer an early demise because of such shoddy shipping practices. This is the first time I've bought a drive this way.

Pros: -Sequential read/write 150mbs new "CrystalDiskMark" -Noticeable faster then my older 600g in my old Acer -Even loads games within seconds -Not a single bad sector "Windows Error Checking, and HD Tune Diagnostic" (Im using a SSD 40g for boot, this as mass storage, and will be buying a 120 SSD for games, but in all honesty, not sure if i really need the ssd for games, becuse this thing is working beautifly so far.

Cons: As long as the drive dosint die any time soon, None.

Overall Review: Just a little more info, this drive is Not my windows drive and i did format with quickk format unchecked, took about 2-3 hours but worth it :P And 6 out of 5 eggs for new eggs excellent packaging!

Pros: great price.. ordered 2 to raid on sata3.

Cons: one was doa, now out $10 shipping and waiting for another one to come my way in a few days. Ugggghhh...

Overall Review: This makes about 4 doa hard drives I've gotten from newegg outta the dozen or so I've ordered over the years. Don't know if someone / somewhere is using these hard drives as hockey pucks along they way or not... but by the time you pay for shipping to return one it washes out the savings. OEM packaging ain't all it's cracked up to be I guess. Luv the egg otherwise, but no more OEM hard drive purchases from me. :-(

Pros: No issues like others have stated, just keeps on working. Great cost for the space. Primarily used for movie playback on a WD Media player plus, via USB and a dock. No trouble.

Cons: the FAEX 1.5 gets a little hotter than I'd like. The FAEX 2TB drive is completely the opposite... stone cold. Both have been reliable... so far.

Overall Review: Have had WD drives die but not in the Black series. 5 years is a great no questions asked warranty from WD. Have used the warranty and they are fast in replacing their products. Currently running 16-FAEX 1.5 drives in a video raid at work. Stable for over 6 months. I believe in batch problems with these manufactured products. See some bad discs show up in reviews close together by date and you might get a dead drive shipped. read a string of good reviews, you might get into the good batch. It's always a cr*p shoot.... They are warranted for this kind of issue and Newegg always has come through whenever there has been an issue! Fear not!

Pros: in reallife usage: as fast as wd6000hlhx I'm using one wd6000hlhx an two wd1502faex on a Hyper-V server.

Cons: that's right : noise - definitively not for home theater pc (anyway you don't need a disk that fast when whatching video)

Overall Review: they were 2% faster when I test on ich10 ?? I can't find performance test on the web for these drive so I'v done mine: with windows7x64 and SisoftSandra: Buffed/Sequential/Random(read)|Buffed/Sequential/Random(write) MB/s : Random Access Time [ (sata2) intel ich10 with Q9550] WD2001FASS 255.1/137.7/71 | 236 /137 /93.54 : 6.8ms WD1502FAEX 256.6/143.2/75.7 | 236.7/142.6/103.7 : 6.23ms WD6000HLHX 254.8/138.6/86.2 | 233.3/136.8/96 : 4.4ms [ (sata3) amd sb850 with ii-x6-1100T] WD1502FAEX 213.7/142.4/71.1 | 165.5/142 /97.57 : 6.9ms WD6000HLHX 253.4/136.6/84.1 | 223 /134.2/90 : 4.6ms [ (sata3) amd sb850 with ii-x6-1100T & Raid00 ] WD1502FAEX 332.1/138.5/89.4 | 240.1/136.8/76.6 : 4.85ms

Pros: Plenty of space, and much faster than my old drives. These drives work great in my raid 1+0 setup.

Cons: Buying 4 at a time is a bit pricey..Drives come out to be 1397.22 GB which is about 100 GB less than 1.5 TB, but that's really nothing new.

Overall Review: I put 4 of these in the Cavalry EN-CADA4BU3E-ZB. It was actually my first raid. When I first connected everything, the drive would randomly become unstable and even unusable during some bigger file transfers until I rebooted. It seems to be working perfectly now that I switched out the old USB 3.0 cable that came with the Cavalry case, to a new Zalman cable. Suppose my rating may change if these don't last very long, but I've had nothing but good experiences with Western Digital.

Pros: Good price for SATA3 drive. Congrats to Newegg for finally packing the drive in nice plastic mounts in a fitted box. Nice touch.

Cons: The drive is a little 'chattier' than most. Seems to be the tradeoff for high performance. Rates a 6.6 on the WEI.

Pros: Fast, quiet, and works great. I also have in my computer a 3 gb/sec SATA 500 gb WD and Seagate drive, and they test out at 80mb transfer rate while this one tests at 133.

Cons: None. It does run about 3 degrees warmer than the other two, but that is no big deal to me.