no rebate makes this a great deal.

Look at the reviews first: 18% gave this product 1 star, many reviewers claiming a DOA hard drive and poor packing by NewEgg. Know what you're doing before you buy.

Decent price for the size, but i was never a fan of hitachi... nothing personal just never liked their marketing. Also this is an OEM drive, so no packaging other than the static bag and newegg usually ships wrapped in 1inch bubble wrap. I have bought several drives from them this way and although not pretty, its ok.

hard drives are fairly rugged and resilient when they're powered off.

Why does newegg still carry the deathstar?
Hitachi has always proven unreliable with their HD's!

This is a very slow drive. You aren't saving much power by switching to a green hard drive. It's like under clocking your CPU by 5 MHz

i would still rather have seagate

Also $88 at ZipZoomFly and it ships well protected. It comes encased in a thick styrofoam "coffin" which is packed in a box filled with those plastic-air-filled-cushioning-bag-thingies. Very well protected. The drive I ordered has been working great for 3 weeks.

Would rather have a Western Digital but this is still a good deal nonetheless.

Which consumes Less power? the WD green 1GB that's been on sale or this. I am mainly using it as the main operating system.

I keep my computer on all day while downloading.

Thanks...

Hitachi's are going into almost every new laptop that I have seen HP and Lenovo

i have two hitachi 500s and they have been nothing short of stellar. they have put up with years of video editing.

Hitachi's aren't bad at all...

#10 the WD Green is the lowest power line of desktop HDs on the market. For now.

Is this Hitachi the 5-platter Deathstar?

I have 2 500GB's and 2 1TB's, all of them running fine. The newest TB is the one offered here. Have had no problems so far.

lol @ newb dumbfvcks that still use the term "deathstar" ... welcome to 3 years ago. Now go the burp back there. These drives are good.

What's with everybody jumping on the green crap? I want a desktop drive that's reliable and has good performance. Saving a couple of watts just doesn't seem that important to me.

No, this is lower power than Caviar Green. And Deathstars were more like 6+ years ago, nowadays I consider Hitachi more reliable than Samsung. This is an efficient, well-balanced, and very fast drive, I don't know where people get this stuff without even bothering to check benchmarks. Cache over 16MB has a very marginal performance benefit if that's what's misleading.

From Tom's Hardware: Caviar Green... spin at only 5,400 RPM to reach low power consumption numbers. However, Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K1000.B provides much better performance, while still requiring less power than the 5,400 RM Caviar Green both in idle power and when running our streaming and workstation tests, so the Caviar Green clearly requires revision.

This has gotten poor reviews even with good packing from Newegg. Apparently quite a few of them have been damaged during shipping either from Hitachi to Newegg or Newegg to the customer. Unfortunately it's hard to tell by physical inspection and sometimes even a thorough disk scan won't show you and it'll die out on you in a month or two. Apparently WD is the best drive for 1TB of data right now.

great deal, but only 16mb