If youre looking for speed, the Black version of this drive is one of the best you can get.

yeah its more then twice the price though !

good cheap storage (if you actually need 2TB)

This is a good deal... however I must note 2 of my WD hard drives passed away after a 2 years.

These are good for secondary storage - you don't want green drives as your primary system drive if performance is a concern.

Green drives in a laptop can extend the battery life, though...

With the platter density on these things, they'd work fine as primary system drives for a lot of people... they'd never know the difference.

I would use this 2TB or more drive for backup purposes. I don't know if the 2TB hard drive market is reliable yet. Are failures still common?

I bought 8 of the cheap seagate 2TB drives. They haven't failed, but it's only been a few months. I can't comment on that WD model though. I think the 2TB failure rate kinks have been worked out. RMA's actually make them fix their stuff, unlike other industries.

this is a whole lot of eggs in one basket.

not if you make backups like you've *always* done #9

Great, reliable storage - and cheap for 2 TBs!

If this was 10 bucks cheaper i would probably get one...As it stands right now i trust my 1TBs more than i would trust the 2TBs.

Edit: I forgot to say ill NEVER order hard drives from newegg again. Last hard drive i purchased from them basically had the hard drive in a box with one(ya, one!) crumpled up piece of paper on top of it. I sent them a letter about it and never got a response, thankfully i got lucky and the hard drive still worked.

get two and mirror them. Will you pay $140 to get all your data back perfect? Yes, most would sell their soul to get back 2TB of data, let along a cheap messily $140. Beats data recovery @ 10X that cost with no guarantee.

if you have space and can find 2x1tb at this price go for 2 hd's

Nice #10