I'm rather keen on the 64MB cache drives from WD right now, but not the older 32MB cache drives.

And with the caveat that one must run the wdidle3 program (once) on them to fix the stupid 8-second head park default.

The DOA rate from newegg is way too high for me to consider purchasing from them.. some of that does go down to shipping, but other stuff I've purchased from newegg has arrived with zero padding in a huge box. Not so harmful for a video card, perhaps, but a hard drive..???

Fedex vs. UPS wouldn't matter much there: equally bad when the product isn't packaged correctly.

Buy locally at a slight premium, if possible.

Cheers