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I installed this device as a second drive in my XP machine and it has worked without a flaw.

Not much else I can ask for, or say!

These are excellent hard drives. I'm a big fan of Western Digital so I guess I'm biased... However, for the price - this drive is a definite must for a poor college student who just needs a few extra gigs for music/pictures. I put this into my new Dell Inspiron 530 computer (which also has a WD 320GB Caviar drive as the C:\ drive). I upgraded from an old IDE 5400 rpm drive so all I can say is that these things are insanely fast compared to my old computer.

Yes, this drive isn't the quietest modern drive out there as I can hear it clicking and searching but it doesn't seem to run as hot as some other drives I've seen. I haven't had a problem with the drive sitting for 5-10 seconds when I open up Windows Explorer either. That would be my only complaint about this drive.

I recommend this drive to my IT friends/non IT friends who don't need 1-2Tarabytes of hard drive space.

This isn't the first Western Digital hard drive that I've used and there's a reason I use them so consistantly. I have yet to have any issues with any of them. Simple installation, speedy delivery, everything I expected from it.

I got this in hopes that replacing the harddrive would fix my computer's crashing problem. It didn't, but it's still a nicer harddrive than I had- quieter, faster (usually. But then, my computer's a lemon, so i can't be hard on this drive). When I purchased it it came with no cables- some reviews mention cables and even discs and manuals, but it was not the case with mine- i bought a cheap cable off of newegg though, and plugging it all in and getting it set up wasn't hard.

Excellent Hard drive so far, no problems. Easy installation, but didn't come with a SATA cable. 5.9 on WEI for Windows 7....