I just put two of these in a new system and now have more storage that I know what to do with. The drives seem relatively quiet. I am running them with XP. Beware if you are using 98 or older, you can't by default partition these as one drive as it won't see the whole drive. I haven't done any real benchmarks to notice the additional speed of the special edition 8MB buffer. I paid about $170 each for the two drives. I have been a Western Digital user for years and have always found their drives reliable. I also have another machine with two 60 gig models installed which have been flawless for over a year. I highly recommend Western Digital.

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