Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This hard drive was the worst I've ever owned. The read speeds seemed slow which was acceptable, and I experienced a whole bunch of strange problems since I started using it: my virtual machines ran slow, my games would offload alot of caching onto CPU, and some applications would freeze when doing an intensive read. I didn't realize it was the drive until I ran Seagate's diagnostic tool on it and found it was failing after less than a year. After I replaced it, all the tasks above were back to normal. The first and LAST Seagate I will ever buy. Pay the extra 30-50 bucks and go with Western Digital.