Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BJKT-00F4T0 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Very fast hard drive. This drive has reduced my boot time by about 10-15 seconds over my previous 80GB 7200 drive. Apps load somewhat quicker. Good size for the price along with the boost in performance. HD Tach score improved average read rate from 49 to 70 MB/s while reducing Random Access time from 22 to 14 ms. Burst up to 214 MB/s from 150 MB/s.

Cons: Potentially reduced battery performance, time will tell. Nothing else I can see.

Overall Review: Western Digital provides free access to Acronis disk cloning program for easy drive replacement. Free fall sensor is some peace of mind for on the job work with my laptop. Newegg ordering and shipping is always first-rate. Highly recommended

Pros: Read about the smooth head movement, and add that to 7200_rpm with a free-fall option, and you have a great drive. I have three. My laptop 5400_rpm drive died due to heat--there was a thumb sized wad of dog hair between the cooling fan and the main radiator. With a little care, this should never happen again. I learned the hard way. This drive makes my middle aged ACER perform like it's overclocked. The drive plus more memory made a great improvement. I use another drive with a SilverStone enclosure for recording 8 tracks live. The enclosure slips into a floppy sized slot on my desktop for editing. Since I've had these drives, I've had zero problems. They're fast, silent, cool, big, and reliable.

Cons: Aside from mounting the drive yourself, there really is no down side. You may have a random bad drive--just replace it. Once you get it settled down, it will simply work. I have three, and all were good out of the envelope.

Overall Review: Get this enclosure.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256030 If you know what you are doing, you will have a gold mine. I used Paragon to copy all the working partitions from a lame drive onto this drive, mounted it, and it is working today. It's like greased lightning.

Pros: This HD is just fast and quiet. Good price perfect for upgrading laptop OEM HD.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I just upgrade my X-205 SLI 2 from hitachi hard drives that just stopped working. Love it! Super fast shut down. Before I was waiting like 1 min to shut it down. Now 7 to 10 seconds its off yes!

Pros: This drive made my laptop come to life. I had a Toshiba 160gb @ 5400 rpm with 8mb cache. Wester Digital came through again. My lappy responds better, boot up and down are quicker. File transfer rates improved, read /write, and search times noticeably faster. Over all great product.

Cons: None, other than no Western Digital Scorpio black @7200 rpm larger than 320gb.

Overall Review: It is ever so slightly warmer. I used the CMS Data Transfer Kit to clone. No problems what so ever. It was easy load, run, wait for transfer, reboot, swap, Bingo. At this price, going from 160gb @5400 to 320gb @7200 was more cost efficient than going with the upgraded laptop. When buying a laptop go with the small HHD and the best processor, then just upgrade with this drive for a lot less.

Pros: Drive is described accurately. Makes same noise and has same power consumption as the 5400rpm drives. Definite speed increase. No apparent extra vibrations or heat. Excellent drive. Works flawlessly so far on Macbook Pro 13" mid 2009.

Cons: Had to get a torx screw driver to install the mac mounting screws, but thats not WD's fault.

Overall Review: Great drive and great price with decent size. No other drive has all the specs.

Pros: size vs capacity. Price is great right now. Warranty

Cons: none that i have seen have 4 between 1 month and 9 months old.

Overall Review: none

Pros: Very fast and quiet. Loved it in my MacBook Pro. Warranty cannot be beat.

Cons: Dead in less than 7 months of service, hence the loss of 2 eggs.

Overall Review: I am super grateful that I use Time Machine on my Mac, because once the RMA drive comes in, I will restore back to where things were this morning when I got home from work. I am not sure why the drive died, but I am grateful for advance replacement as an option on the Western Digital site.

Pros: Everything working great.

Cons: None yet

Overall Review: I instaled this on a Macbook Pro