Pros

I bought 5 of these about a year and a half ago befor the hhd market went crazy. Got them for 40$ a peice on sale. 1 was doa but the other 4 have run flawlessly. I have 3 in raid0 and the other one by its self in another build.Great price for the performace at the time i bought.

Cheap at the time

N/a

Very good 7200 drive that is extremely fast! Avg transfer rate is at 100mb / s It stays 42c in a small mini-ITX chassis. Followed with an acer Vertion X2610G http://www.2shared.com/photo/Lv07lBwY/HDTune_Benchmark_ST500DM002-1B.html Given the prices in the segment so it is too expensive in comparison...

Five Stars

Great way to add a hard disk. I really like this product.

Not new

Out of the six 500 GB drives I ordered as new, when I put them in my servers 3 of them came up as unallocated disk space and did not to be initialized. This told me they were used. The other 3 seemed to be new and were asking to be initialized properly.