Pros: Insanely fast for a spinning disk. High data density results in the fastest data TRANSFER speeds I've seen out of spinning media. They are NOT the fastest seek times ever. Seek times affect boot up a small amount but really are only a relevant factor when building a Database server. Average users will not notice a few milliseconds of seek time from one drive to another.

Cons: Shipping. 100% of the four bought locally with retail packaging are still in service with no issues. 2 of the 6 that were shipped failed. One within a week, the other 2 weeks. BOTH that failed had all the bubbles popped on one side of their wrap, and were on the edge of the shipping box. I can't fault new egg for their customer service but I CAN FAULT THEM for not shipping them better! Seagate says bubble wrap is not effective for a reason. Although bubble wrap protects to some degree from physical injury it does NOT adequately protect from impulse g-forces or "shock" incurred as the package is tossed/passed/field goal kicked by ups. Some of my UPS containers look like they did a tour in bosnia right after being used as a football for a rugby team. These REALLY need to be shipped in slotted foam that holds them secure and dampens shock impulses to protect them. Noisy drives, clunking, whirring, vibration, bad sectors new are ALL SIGNS OF SHIPPING INJURY NOT THE DRIVE!

Overall Review: Think about it, seagate at the end of their assembly has to spin up the drive to flash the firmware and check it's operation. I'm sure they don't go extreme with testing it, but i'm pretty sure every drive spins quietly without vibration or clunking at the factory. If the drive gets slammed around on it's way to you, the platter can be knocked off alignment and cause failure. The bearing hubs for hard drives on ALL MANUFACTURERS are pressed into position by an automated process to line it up with the arm and case. Slam them hard enough and the inertia of the disk/hub assembly will adjust this and cause minor issues (such as vibration, or read/write errors due to the head being far from the platter now) or serious ones because contact is made. Consider any hard drive you SHIP that is not in a RETAIL BOX a risk that shipping might damage it.

Pros: Pretty lights, looks very good considering low weight. VERY durable and sustainable in crashes.

Cons: All You should plan on doing, is crashing it. Hopefully it is just the one I got, but it was impossible to fly. I'm not new to R/C stuff. I know heli's are not "easy" but I have friends with little ones that are not that difficult to do basic things like take off, and land without changing time zones. This little unit is impossible. It would not trim to even close to a zero. It would intermittantly start spinning no amount of correction would fix it. Trim until it would not spin, go up a little, down a little, and spins start again. Would randomly pick a direction, start spinning and fly that way. It's first outdoor flight on a really calm day, it started off well, hit about 10 feet up then decided to go full throttle, full spin and climb at least 40 feet in the air ignoring all input. Hit the end of radio range then fell like a very light rock. It flies very well, if You call throwing a spinning brick from an airplane and watching it hit the ground flight.

Overall Review: I was disappointed. It looked nice, sounded nice, appeared to be a good deal for 30$ It turned out to be junk and not worth the time spent waiting on it to charge. I don't know if new egg will take it back since it is lightly damaged now. I don't think it's a "fair" product as it seems to "run away" and completely ignore controller input at any random point in time it wishes. Save Your money, buy one a little nicer. Some of the 70-100$ units on here are very well made and considerably more reliable

Pros: I purchased mine in 2010. It still reads kinda.. but after a little bit of time gets hot, starts throwing errors. Lasted 8 years, good performance until now. I will buy another black drive again. The difference between WD black/gold/red-pro is night and day vs their blue/green/red regular consumer drives. I've replaced a dozen WD lower offerings in my friends/family/client pc's over the same period of time. In short, you get what you pay for with hard drives, so when the data counts, spend the extra on a premium drive.

Cons: sad to see it die.

Pros: It sat "on" for breif periods as a "hot swap" if required, in my backup box (software raid used, this drive was never allocated or used) It didn't destroy the machine or set it on fire, it formatted once... thats the only thing good I can say for it.

Cons: This never actually worked. I tested it when I first got it.. copied a few hundred gigs back and forth, seemed fine, left it sitting blank in a machine in case I needed it. The machine was left on for a few hours here and there, never really used, was just "cold storage" for some files, and this drive was never used past initial tests. When I finally decided to create a mirror using it and one of my other drives, it kept causing crashes and fails (software mirror of data, nothing fancy) drive will sometimes report that it exists, will not format, controller sometimes responds with smart errors, one of my systems it causes the board not to even post... it simply doesn't work even in the machines that "see" it. It won't format, it's unusable after literally near zero use. Can't warranty it, as the label was never printed with the warranty information. Now I know to check any drive I buy day I get it to make sure the label information is complete. This was a complete waste of money.

Overall Review: If you buy anything from toshiba make sure you check warranty status day one. This drive doesn't show up in their system, even though the sticker is an obvious match, and it was obviously purchased through here. I'm not happy with this purchase as it died with near zero use and now is just a desk ornament.

Pros: Mine just failed 4 months ago. My purchase was 11/2011 I really can't complain about that long of a lifespan. Did what it was supposed to do without issue for that long!

Cons: none

Pros: In some cases ram requires a little tweaking. A bit of voltage, latency adjustments, clock adjustments in order to be perfectly stable. In both my 990 and 890 board it worked perfectly. I'm not pushing it too hard, 1666 currently with 9.9.9.22 timings. I'm using a PhenomII B.E. overclocked to 4.4 ghtz so pushing high clock on the memory tends to generate more heat in the die than it does performance. It runs perfectly at the advertised clock rate and latencies, this is just a sweet spot for my setup. No voltage tweaks were required at all to make it stable at any clock I've tried.

Cons: It's better than the 1600 sniper I bought a few months back. Wish I could trade that set in for another set of this. My 1600 would flake once a month or so, I ordered this as a replacement knowing headroom would help timings and stability.

Overall Review: I"m quite happy with it. It clears under my giant cinder-block sized tower cooler without issue. It works as advertised, possibly a bit better than advertised. Simply good ram.