Relatively slow small files performance counts against the Caviar Blue 1TB, leaving little reason to buy it unless you don't care about this or can find it cheaper.

All the space I need, but you can really hear it when it's working

Very happy with the performance

It gets the job done.

Just what you need to begin with, or for a budget build. Relatively quiet, decent capacity, decent price.

Hard drive is perfect for general storage and mightyape delivered blazing fast. :)

Fast drive and cheap, no problems with speed. Does get a little loud in an open case although but can only hear it when you are trying to.

A large storage space at a cheap price with (what seems) comparable speeds to that of a SSD

Great quality hard drives, and hasn't had a single fault

I have three of these in Raid 5. & can barely hear them when they are running.