Joined on 09/20/02
Fast
Pros: Tomshardware charts has this listed as the 2nd fastest consumer HDD ,only beaten by WD's 1TB Velocoraptor 10k rpm drive. This costs 33% of what u would pay for a raptor. I have this paired with a cache drive from OCZ, & only my sata11 southbridge (AMD 790) is holding this combo back.
Cons: NONE.
Overall Review: WEI only tests the transfer speeds of a system drive- mine was 5.9 even with the cache drive installed. I OCed my ram( Gskill Ares) from 1333mhz- 1600mhz WEI went up to 6.3. Without the cache drive this wouldn't happen. If anyone knows why feel free to comment.
Good enclosure, no U.S. plug
Pros: Good solid enclosure. Perfect fit. cabled just right.
Cons: Power supply didn't have an adapter for the U.S. Had to buy a separate power block.
Overall Review: Would not recommend for U.S. customers.
L5 LITE 3D 240GB
Pros: Bougy 2 this week, both seem to be working fine. They took the place of spinners so it was an upgrade with both.
Cons: Windows 10 reports they can't be optimized using Windows built in SSD optimizer. I search Team Groups' website for a firmware update looking for a fix. There was none. Maybe in the near future. I hope this isn't an indication something may be wrong with both of them.
Overall Review: I will try a tool called Trimcheck later to see if trim is enabled.
2 still good
Pros: I have been using 2 of these drives since May 2013 as media storage drives in windows media center for whole house steaming. They are still running great while not being in a RAID array.
Cons: ALL 7200 rpm drives HAVE TO BE ACTIVELY COOLED! If not, don't expect them to last very long.
Overall Review: When I first bought these, I got a Rosewill Blackhawk case with them because it came with 2 front fans preinstalled cooling fans for the HDD cages. It's been great ever since.
Defective BIOS chip?
Pros: When working, all is well, I'm happy.
Cons: When I first got the board, the killer nic was switching on & off, never stable, so, I flashed the bios. The board came with the latest Bios. After that it was okay for about a month & a half. Then, the pc would start slowing down & the usb3 controller started dropping out. Reflashed the bios, The PC was back at speed, but, the usb3 was gone.
Overall Review: Either the bios chip or it is a poorly written bios. The current file is 7693vM2. I've tried it in Windows 7 32b, win 10 tp 32b, &,win 10 64b.The most problems show up in the 32 bit windows installs.
Nice case, BUT-
Pros: Good looking, plenty of room, comes with 5 installed quiet fans. Has very good cable management and not too many ODD slots.
Cons: Out of the 5 installed fans, only 1 came with a motherboard header. All the rest are molex connectors.
Overall Review: The fan connectors were the only fault I found with this case. It's a great case otherwise.
Took forever to get here.