I've purchased several of these drives for my machines, and all have been superb. Jumper settings are clearly marked, these disks are almost silent, and the best thing of all is the 8Mg cache, which enables much faster performance than the typical 2Mg caches many other drives have. Note also that these disks spin at 7200 rpm vs. the typical 5400 rpm of many other drives.

Current prices (March 2004) for this drive are approx $75 although I admit I paid more due to the fact that my purchases were done in late 2002 and early 2003. This family of drives in my opinion is top notch - I have been running several of these drives in multiple machines and couldn't be happier with them. -- J.W.

I've got this disk for nearly 2 years and like it very much. It's big, quiet and fast. I've never had a problem with it.

No problems. Only working.

I'm glad everybody else has had such good luck with these. I must have gotten a bad one.

There are bad blocks all over this thing ... DMA timeouts (then DMA shutdown, followed by resets & horrible performance).

I'm going back for an exchange soon. Before I do that, I'm running the read/write badblocks testing and seeing if I can't avoid having to exchange it. It doesn't look good (am now in the third hour of mke2fs -cc on a 6 GB partition), though.

Will re-post later and hopefully (!!) be able to raise the compatibility rating!!

An excellent drive at an average price. Paid about $75 USD at local store. New install detected with no problems. Running it on an old Dell Dimension XPS D300 and the system is whisper quiet. Will probably buy another on eBay for RAID purposes as they're running about $40~$50 there right now.