Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio Black SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive WD1600BEKT

This was an easy upgrade for my older intel mac mini. The speed increase vs from the original 5400rpm disk and capacity hike from 80G to 160G are both useful. Only downside is that it's a noisier than the original when it's under load e.g. when I was installing new software, startup/shutdown. During 'normal' operation, browising, streaming, etc. it's not noticable - but these are not disk-intensive operations.
Pros: Faster startup/shutdown and application launch
Cons: A little noisy when doing disk-intensive operations

Some people have commented about heat problems - but even when installing a new os which will hit the disk and cpu hard there was no noticable heating versus the original, but I did blow out all the accumulated dust in the box when I installed it, which may be helping.

I don't know what the deal is but at the time of writing this, the hard drive is selling for a little over $100. I paid $50 from Amazon 1 year ago for this hard drive. I don't know why its so expensive now, but I have been looking at getting a terabyte hard drive (for a desktop) and you can get one for around $100. This thing at the time of writing is overpriced. It is a decent hard drive at the price I paid last year. But not at twice the cost.

It is still going, although the Sony Vaio computer it was in isn't I have adopted it to fit in my desktop. Although after 1 year you can't tell much from a hard drive - it should make it another 9 years and I feel confident that it will meet that goal.

UPDATE: An issue in Thailand is apparently responsible for a shortage and thus the higher prices. Go without a hard rive and run an OS in the RAM if you can. Some Linux OS'S only need USB and RAM. You use the USB to save basic settings or files.

its a hard drive whats there to say. it works, and still works. no problems with it so far.
good price on it