Pros: Durable AF. You could probably throw this thing off a 30 story building and still retain your data. But don't.

Cons: I buy these 1TB usb3.0 drives to put an ISCSI disk image for offsite backups. The non-metal editions that I use, which both benchmark at the same speed, seem to run 80% faster than this model. I'm getting around 60MB/s via 1000BASE-T, where as I can pull around 100-110MB. Not sure if it's the cluster size or I/O pattern I'm choosing on my defaults (which work fine on the others), but the fact that there is nothing different, other than the models and the issue still exists, is annoying.. So, in the future, I will avoid the metal editions. I deduct 1 star for them not using an identical drive in the non-metal edition.

Pros: Obviously fast and affordable.

Cons: DOesn't play well with most SATA controllers. Consult the documentation on Quantum's website, go to service and support, click downloads, select the device dlt-v4, scroll to the very bottom where the documentation is listed, then click the HBA compatiblity list.

Overall Review: Would buy SCSI instead of SATA

Pros: 100% working 100% flawless

Cons: Good lord man, don't ever break your screen. This replacement procedure is a beating. Swapping everything from the old screen to the new assembly takes precision and delicacy.

Overall Review: I use a heating pad instead of a heatgun for the procedure and everything worked well.

Pros: To get this type of storage performance with SSD drives, you need at least 4 sata and 4 power connectors, not to mention 4 drives or 4 drive slots... The R7xx series servers we have come with 8 PCI x4 slots, so this was a very, very sensible solution to meet our storage requirements. We had severe bottle-necking on our SQL serve0r clusters and these drives eliminated every single issue that could be address via I/O. They do use the PCI interface, which in our case does cause a little CPU overhead on the hypervisor, but still CRUSHES the native SAS controller provided from Dell. Production speed test I ran 5 mins ago at 2PM during business hours: Total length write: 2GB Overlapped I/O MB/s write / read .5 12704 / 18340 1.0 17445 / 31744 2.0 54784 / 53115 4.0 201728 / 88205 8.0 385024 / 148023 16.0 640155 / 239865 32.0 1017654 / 331725 64.0 1189939 / 561220 128.0 1254666 / 937085 256.0 1270349 / 1491478 512.0 1296976 / 2093039 1024.0 1322659 / 2587672 2048.0 1307181 / 2671771 4096.0 1312108 / 2568760 8192.0 1325607 / 2304167

Cons: It is expensive simply for being bleeding edge technology... We bought the bullet and took the risk, now we are completely satisfied. But still, my boss is a cheapskate and this process took some serious "convincing". We've owned these disks for 7 months and they've been in production for 5. I've been told that I should expect about 8 or 9 more months before data errors and sluggishness starts.

Overall Review: This is obviously the older model and the concerns I have have been addressed in the new product.

Pros: Has a 1 plug form factor and has two USB slots, on 2.1A and 1A

Cons: The device will not reach/maintain 2A power. I purchased for the small form factor for a raspberry pi thin client and the device constantly complained about power. I was wondering how they were able to achieve 2A power safely through the 1 plug design, considering Apple doesn't even do that.

Overall Review: I refuse to RMA this. I would like to think eating the cost will keep this out of the hands of someone like my grandma or mother, who'd leave it plugged in all day.

Pros: OEM apc monitor cable for USB to RJ45 serial. I bought 30 UPS for my company on newegg. My brilliant assistant decided to throw away the box that had all the monitoring cables in it. Ugh... The money I saved shopping through newegg was a push after this mistake.... We live and we learn. Love newegg. Been using them for 13 years now.

Cons: None