Applications start up faster and the drive is fairly quiet.
The only thing that sux is that defragmenting a big drive like this takes about 2-4 hours depending on how much space I used up. The same process would probably take even longer with a 5,400 RPM drive of the same capacity. 7,200 RPM is much better then the old 5,400. The performance was great in UDMA 33. Using a FIC SD-11 motherboard the UDMA 66 did not work with the Maxtor.