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

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Got four for a RAID 10 array

I got four of these disks for a RAID 10 array. My PC had an on-board controller with the Intel chip-set, so I tried out RAID 5 and RAID 10. RAID 10 worked a treat. Very fast read/write speeds whereas RAID 5 had dreadful write speed due to the on-board controller.

It works!

I got this drive with a bare bones bundle deal. It's not a high performance system. I installed this drive and it's working just fine. Up time so far is about 2 weeks. :) Performance seems quite good.

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...