Hitachi GST Deskstar T7K250 HDT722525DLA380 (0A31636) 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Raided 2 Hitachi drives using windows xp disk management. Load times for WoW are 1/3 that of my non raided computer run side by side.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: GREAT price.

Pros: A very quiet drive and it was easy to install.It works great with my Dell E510,just remember to download the Feature Tool from the Hitachi site and burn it to a disc so you can tweak the drive(Do this before installing windows)

Cons: None Yet

Pros: Seems fast in everyday operation and defragmenting; reasonably quiet inside of a quiet case

Cons: Need to download the hard-drive utility program from the Hitachi website to enable SATA-II; the program itself is useful for changing speed settings and many details of the drive’s operation, if needed

Overall Review: Once you have finished fooling around with the Hitachi program, everything is smooth sailing

Pros: I’ve had zero problems runnings this in a mirror for my data redundancy. (I’m sure the nforce chipset is more responsible for them running smooth in that mode.) Anyways, I have 6 harddrives in my case and they stay cool and run fine.

Cons: So far known, I’ll let you know if any appear.

Overall Review: I already own 2 of these and ordered 2 more.

Pros: Fastest WinXP install ever, fairly low noise!! I haven’t had a chance to use it much, yet

Cons: Bought 2 drives, one of them came faulty. Newegg gave me back my money no problems, ordered another one through another online reatailer for close to same price.

Overall Review: I have read prior reviews about how this drive runs in SATA-I mode normally, and you have to download the “Feature Tool” to get it to run in SATA-II mode. Well here is the “Featuer Tool” link for everyone:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool

Pros: Very fast drive, SATA, Fairly quiet.

Cons: bought this thing almost 2 years to the date and it died on me.

Overall Review: Hope it lives longer for the rest of you. Also, Wish I would have purchased an extended warranty.

Pros: Fast hard drives. Setup in RAID 5. Ordered three, they’ve all worked so far.

Cons: None. OEM packaging always sucks due to lack of cables but other than that, these are great.

Pros: this is a awsome hard drive…250 gb for the price is awsome…i take my pc with me alot…lots of driving, sence i have got the hard drive my computer has been in the car with me o about 15 times, and no prolems yet.

Cons: none

Overall Review: if u r mad because it has no instrunstions or cables or any think like that its ur fault… it says “OEM” meaning basic, no nothing….and another thing the only reason that it would only see just 137gbs of it if u r uesing windows 2000 or down, so if u r incountering that then that is the problem