good price, but a lot of doa's - like 16%. Not a great bet.

Why not WD for the same price in ZZF?

Great for storage, not so great for performance.

#2: the WD drive on sale there is a 5400RPM drive, so its performance is worse than this drive.

will this work fine with xp or do i need to do something to make it see all the space?

Obviously #5, you need an AGP slot

#5: well, provided you're running at least XP with SP1, then you're good.

I don't think DOA is anywhere near 16%. Where do you get that? People who get a bad one are much likelier to report it than ones who did not. I got this exact drive from them and I didn't write a review to say it's worked fine. It replaced an 80GB Hitachi system drive that was also still working fine after 5 years, just too slow. That said, at this point I'd spend the extra money on a Seagate .12 gen 1TB

everyone makes some bad drives, but I would not go for this. I usually go for the black series from this company.

I bought two from ZZF and one was DOA claiming "excessive shock" using Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test.

As for performance, with a SATA 150 interface I saw a sustained 88 MB/sec from beginning to end with the good drive. Not average rate, it held the same rate on inner tracks as it did for outer tracks. Probably demonstrating the actual capacity of SATA 150 more than what the drive is capable of.

Those are pretty, damn cheap.

Even cheaper this weekend with 10% off hard drive code EMCHDD10A. Only available while funds last. Expires 6/22/09.

Nice find, #13. With that discount this price goes down to 64.49, making it the best 7200RPM 1TB hard drive deal yet.