Pros: I really cannot think of any

Cons: This cable does NOT work for connecting thunderbolt to a DP display. This includes thunderbolt ports directly on a mac and the thunderbolt/miniDP bolts on my Belkin thunderbolt dock.

Using this cable results in intermittent disruptions in connectivity, occasionally imaging corruption (screen turns purple or displays 1" horizontal grey striping), and has a very sensitive mechanical/electrical contacts at the miniDP end. the lightest touch at the miniDP end results in loss of connectivity. You will have to remove/re insert the cable a dozen times before you have luck.

This sounds like it would be a defective cable, but I don't think that it is. I also have a mono price cable. It behaves IDENTICAL.

Fortunately, I found that star tech cables DO work for thunderbolt/miniDP to DP.

Pros: Decent length.

Not having to buy a DP to mini-DP adapter was nice.

Cons: It failed to function within a year. Screen flickers on and off with a white noise-like image.

Other Thoughts: The prongs that keep the connector in the slot make it difficult to unplug the cable from a monitor with limited space to depress the button that releases the prongs but that's standard to DisplayPort and not this cable in particular.

Pros: Works as listed. Easy to plugin. No issues to date since switching from DVI

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Would buy again for my next monitor.

Pros: The replacement process was pretty easy.

Cons: After my previous comment I went to SIIG and obtained a RMA and got a replacement in less than a week. Since then I went to use my DVI out and had no problems ever since. When I got a second monitor and decided to use the replacement DP cable, it worked fine for a couple of days. Turned it on this morning and I got the same dreaded "Display Port Link Failure."

Pros: Was easy to install.

Cons: Thing only lasted like a month (31 days to be exact) as the others had posted. I bought a ASUS VG24QE 144Hz monitor with this cable and the cable just crapped out on me. I also get the same "DISPLAYPORT LINK FAILURE" with no other resolve other than to replace the cable with something else. Newegg won't be able to exchange/return since its over a day. Bleh.

Pros: Over the course of its use (about a year) it usually seemed to work fine (w/ some random issues).

Cons: For a long time my computer would kind of "forget" that anything was plugged into the display, & basically change my resolution to 640x480 on its own, so I always had to manually fix that. Annoying but not a deal breaker.

More recently I would completely lose the display after the computer was on for a few minutes. Plugging in a DVI cable I'd see Windows 8 displaying a "DisplayPort Link Failure" error.

I used to think it was a driver issue, or Window 8, but now I have a strong suspicion the problem was the cable all along. Thinking this cable isn't wired to DisplayPort's specs. Many cheap DisplayPort cables apparently connect pin 20 (DP_PWR) when they're not supposed to.

Other Thoughts: Was using this to connect a Dell U2410 Monitor to a AMD Radeon HD 7970.

Incidentally the DisplayPort website only lists one manufacturer (Accell) that bothered to go through certification on their cables. You can Google around for the DisplayPort pin 20 DP_PWR issue to read up on it.

Also read this may be less an issue w/ Nvidia cards, Nvidia cards try to detect miswired DisplayPort cables w/ pin 20 & send the stray power into a power sink, supposedly.

Rage3d.com has great info on this!

Bottom line, check w/ the manufacturer if they're connecting pin 20 on their DisplayPort cables to avoid problems.

Pros: Cheap.

Cons: Stopped working after a month or so. Booted my computer up just now, and started getting an error saying "DisplayPort Link Failure". And my 144Hz monitor recieves no DisplayPort input signal now. Guess I'll have to find a nicer one...

Pros: the other one works

Cons: the mini display port end doesn't connect properly to the graphics card in either plugin, but similar cable just a bit longer works perfectly fine in both mini display ports on the graphics card

Other Thoughts: will try to RMA the cable and replace it for another one

Pros: Very Cheap, does the job well

Cons: I don't see any con

Other Thoughts: I bought monster DP cable for $90 at a local store. I compared this one and they're pretty much the same. So I decided to return the monster and settled with this one. Don't waist your money on monster unless you find it very cheap. $11 = $90.

Pros: Works as advertised. Nice flexible jacket. Ships with protective dust caps on the connectors.

Cons: The fullsize display port side is a tad pia when you want to unlock/unplug it but that is more of a gripe with the connector format not this particular cable as it is as good as any I have tried.

Other Thoughts: Great cable that does what you need without you having to ever consider it again.