Pros: Owner since about Mid 2012. Small, lightweight, doesn't get hot. FROM MY EXPERIENCE it supports two usb external 3TB hard drives FILLED with bluray and dvd movies ( yes it is a little slower when toggling between each storage drive to access video files collections. However, given the hardware inside this unit, that is an understandable trade off). Included remote is good enough ( although I use a logitech harmony 600 which I was lucky enough to get at a Dirt Cheap, similar to hudson's salvage center, store upon first's months of grand opening for five bucks). PLAYS VIRTUALLY EVERY VIDEO TYPE/FILE KNOWN TO MANKIND! :D PLENTY of screen/aspect ratio zooming options. Supports a broad range of resolutions from 480p to 1080p and 1080i. Hdmi and toslink optical audio both work like a champ without headaches. Wireless N in this device is not bad but could be better. Firmware updates always work although take longer than I feel they should ( i learned to just physically connect it to my netgear wndr3700 for best realistic speeds)

Cons: Slower than it should be even for a 80.00 and above price tag for 2014 buyers. However AGAIN this is a trade off i'm willing to make especially given my 1.5 years of experience in dealing with this product.

Overall Review: This EXACT media player's ac power brick IS EXACTLY the same as the WD 3tb EXTERNAL hard drive My Book's. thus if you're like me and bringing your entire movie collection over to mom's to introduce her to the wonderful world of 120hz bluray movies with your wdtv live smp and 3tb wd my book, you won't have to worry about which power brick goes to which device. Western Digital, if you are listening MAKE ANOTHER one of these, but make it usb 3.0 ports, put faster hardware inside USING THE SAME great interface(s)/menu's, etc, possibly support for 4k movies? otherwise no problem on the 4k request. Just make another one EXACTLy like this only with usb 3.0 ports and FASTER and I'll gladly pay another 100 to 120.00 for it and sell my current WDBHG70000NBK unit for 40 bucks u.s. dollar. If I can help anyone needing it, email tysonpcservices@yahoo.com Cheers

Pros: 1. Beats the nd d15, phtc14pe and MAYBE the rightThermal silver arrow extreme in cpu load performance. 2. Is a little shorter in height than all three of those coolers. 3. Is VERY silent even when the fans are in full speed. 4. Price considering the performance if you don't want to go the liquid cooling route. 5. Looks great unlike the depressing barf color of a certain Austrian company who makes EXCELLENTLY performing cpu coolers. 6. fans are 4 pin pwm controllable and it comes with a two fan into- one splitter as all dual tower dual fan included-air cpu coolers should. 7. 6 year warranty. 8. Unit arrived in perfect condition as a result of EXCELLENT packing by the manufacture AND newegg! 9. Is compatible with pretty much EVERY amd and intel socket known to man in the past 11 years. 10. Fits pretty much every high end motherboard ( some have tall mosfet heatsinks that could prevent installing hardcore air cpu coolers) out there. 11. It's NOT sold out everywhere and thus fairly easy to get one! At room temp of 70 F, and under prime 95 small ffts, my cpu maxes out at no higher than 40 even adding 2c degrees ( to fit the margin of possible error of software temp reading) to what Hardware Monitor and CoreTemp claim in real time. This versus my zalman 9500a ( red heatsink with blue led fan also purchased from newegg eons ago) who couldn't keep this cpu's temps below 50 under the same exact variables and scenario.

Cons: Vital piece of installation instructions were missing. Thus for the manufacturer *( not newegg) instead of 10/10..you get 8.5 out of 10 for the total experience. NO WHERE, ...( I have read the instruction manual 4 times over)...does it mention ANYTHING of HOW to get the two spring loaded screws, that MOUNT this massive beast of a cooler on top of your cpu, to actually start "grabbing" thread with the female screw-in screws that are mounted to the cpu-side of the motherboard mounting system...WITHOUT trying to literally break the black rectangular shaped plate. I KNOW I read this somewhere on the net, but I forgot who to give credit to. Regardless, I'll save some buyers some headache here. When you get to the point to where you're ready to finally mount this on your cpu and try screwing in the two screws..STOP. 1st. remove the fan that covers your view of the black plate with the two large screws and the small center screws ( all phillips headed btw) 2nd. UNscrew the small center screw in the center of that rectangular plate right ontop where the heatpipes meet the block. This allow it to flex enough within reason on both ends to FINALLy let you put a sensible amount of force while screwing down the two larger springloaded screws to get them to " grab" into the female screw-in screws on the mount itself TO mount the cooler to the base properly. 3rd. NOW after screwing in the two large spring screws all the way ( it will be obvious when they are tight enough, trust me..DON'T go beyond that as another newegg reviewer warned you)..THEN you can retighten the small center screw. It took me an hour to realize I had to do this after literally straining to put enough down pressure onto the spring screws with a hardcore giant phillips head screw driver. Needless to say I about died laughing at what could be a silly case of cerebral flatulence in my own humble humor.

Overall Review: No regrets and can't wait to see how well this thing cools my 4790k for the wife's future build, and MY final build this year involving a 5960x and 8GB vram gtx 980TI with a Asrock matx x99m motherboard inside a thermaltake core v21 cube case. My current rig and ALL parts purchased from newegg: cpu=phenom II x6 at 3625mhz ( yes..old but still VERY snappy..especially at 250 ish front side bus) cpu cooler= this cooler ram= ddr3 1600mhz ram running at 1332mhz 1t 9-9-9-24 timings. case=corsair 550d-. YES this cryorig r1 ultimate fits my case barely. It just BARELY bows out the side panel by literally less than 1/8th inch if that, not enough to worry as the 550d has a solid closing/latching system. The phtc14pe will bow out my side panel and thus why I'm glad my friend allowed me to test fit it FIRST before mistakenly choosing that cpu cooler. Attention Cryorig!!!. You should have included the info I did in the --Cons:-- section as a VITAL part of the installation instructions. " 5 minute install" ...Um. NOT unless you're lucky enough to know the info that took me an hour to figure out...AHEAD of time.lol. Not quite worth deducting an egg, but this IS required information in order to mount this BOSS of a cooler. Thanks for your patience with this review. I'm thorough and I care. Clock on fellow geeks!

Pros: It is slightly faster than 7 It handles dpi scaling slightly better than 7. It is build to deal with ssd's, completely, UNLIKE 7. (I've already written a review of Windows 8 Pro 64 bit on here long ago specifying the rest. Find it. It's under the same nick name " Libertarian "

Cons: People that keep Low -egging this item when it's obvious they're just repeating the same non-sensible negative hype because " waaaa metro screen. waaa apps" Wait. You must must right click and left click on " uninstall" to remove the app that I can't stand? That's too much effort, waaaaaaaa. I hate win8. waaaa" -_- *facepalm* These are probably the same people who would complain about getting oil changed in a REGULAR gasoline combustion automobile ( something that has BEEN a normal regularly scheduled maintenance tasks for the everyday car, pickup, and bigrig diesel truck for the past 100 years) after buying the car brand new thinking that just because it's new that THAT task shouldn't be necessary. These people don't seem to understand the concept of critical thinking and common sense. It's Microsoft Windows. There WILL be at least ONE or a few things that the individual pc user MUST adjust or tweak to his or her preference. Microsoft can't read anyone's mind on this planet at a moments notice to program a CERTAIN tweak to THAT individual's future liking into a mass production software of an Operating System. Get real.

Overall Review: If you're too lazy to UNINSTALL something that is EASY to uninstall and too ignorant or lazy to internet search for " classic shell", download it and install it, then you have NO RIGHT low egging a product that you OBVIOUSLY knew ahead of time had the " metro screen" that you all can't stand. I"m willing to bet that over half the reviews on windows 8 and 8.1 on here AREN'T by any owners who let alone owners who PAID for it. If you didn't even pay for it, you haven't the right to complain. I had SENSE enough to test the tech preview with classic shell, start8, and other coherent software to ensure for myself that I WILL NEVER have to deal with the modernui aka metro screen when I finally chose to buy Windows 8's full official version. Why is this even a debate or problem again? Classic shell has BEEN available since at least January 2013 when I was able to buy Win 8 pro 64 bit via direct download from Microsoft's official website for 39 dollars and 99 cents. This is OLD info now. Children love to harp on silly things. I say children because it MUST be children that just get on newegg to get noticed trying to keep adding lighter fluid to a pointless argument that was defeated before it even began. Yes Windows M.E. was horrible and should have never been released. Yes Vista was trash also, but Windows 8 isn't either. Fact= EVERY version of Windows must be tweaked to some extent, depending on THE INDIVIDUAL user's preferences. It's like buying or renting a new home. Just because the previous owner hated navy blue walls and all white colored bathroom design DOESN'T mean the home needs nuking. It's called visit a paint store and get to work. Nothing in life is free and PERFECTLY ready for your enjoyment. A mediocre life is always ready for you, but a GREAT life takes work. " Anything worth doing won't always be easy". Get over it. Not the cars you buy, not the food preparations you prefer, and certainly not doing your yearly taxes will be headache-free. Grow up people. Stop hating on a good product just because you think you're cool. The POINT of uploading a review of a product is to give honest, sincere, but most of all an INFORMATIVE review of the product and what to expect. It's beyond OBVIOUS more than half the reviews about Windows 8 and 8.1 on here are just ignorant children who have nothing better to do than to bash a good product that they are too lazy to just internet search for classic shell or the like. People who are that lazy or ignorant or both really shouldn't be allowed to upload reviews since their reviews are so obviously biased to such an UNeducated extent that it will give the wrong impression of the product. Don't you particular reviewers realize this MAY hurt newegg's sales? Do you even care? Newegg is made up of human beings too. Try stopping, thinking, and realizing that instead of uploading useless and just ignorantly negative content, do your research, try things and THE

Pros: You get what you paid for: 1. It's well build especially considering the price. 2. It fits and works with any 2.5 inch laptop hard drive and ssd's. 3a. The usb 3.0 cable is a NORMAL usb cable. If you hate that stupid cable that looks like someone took pliers and literally BENT INWARD the center part of one side of the usb 3.0 cable connection end-piece (like one included with the wd my book 3tb that every etailer sells-for example), you'll appreciate this. 3b. The cable is about the perfect length. It is 2 feet and 1 inch fully stretch to a perfect line. Yes most people buying this enclosure, no exception here, buy this for converting an internal laptop hdd to an external one to use with their laptop and the usb ports are MORE easily accessible obvious versus most desktop pc's. Thus they often don't need nor want a super long usb cable requiring them to set their external hdd 4 to 6 feet away from the laptop when using it. 4. Both " quick removal" and " enable disk write caching" work flawlessly with this unit in Windows operating systems. 5. It looks good. Yes I agree, looks really isn't a big deal, but it's a nice distant bonus.

Cons: It's not worth subtracting an egg, but given this enclosure's physical dimension's design, it doesn't appear to have any dampening material ( rubber, foam, etc) at all inside and doesn't have any on the outside. Thus play it safe and be gentle. ANY spinning disc hard drive while turned on ( and yes even completely powered off) is not immune to shock damage causing data loss and even hard drive failure even inside this enclosure. It's metal on metal. Remember that.

Overall Review: 10 bucks USD for an easy solid way to turn either a internal ssd or laptop 2.5" hdd into an external plug n play storage device without requiring separate a/c power is a win/win. ** useful tip**** Want an easy way to get your pc back to normal when major problems arise? System Image Restoration is your friend and HUGE time-saver. If you're using a regular spinning disc hard drive for Windows, just buy a ssd from newegg ( sandisk ultra II 240GB as if the time of writing this review is on sale for around 90 ish bucks USD. This is an EGGcellent deal!!), perform a fresh Windows installation into the ssd- after UNinstalling Windows from the current hdd when you load the disc and delete all partitions on it to DEactivate it, then put your old harddrive into this enclosure and use it for System Image Backups and restoration as needed. Each laptop/motherboard has a different Fkey for accessing Windows Recovery ( usually a blue screen with multiple options). Windows 7 and 8 make this process fairly easy, but Vista is a little more of a headache I hear. Cheers

Pros: I'll list the Pros in my own opinion of order of importance from 1 being the MOST important to whatever number being last. 1. LOVE THIS type of usb 3.0 end of a data cable. I HATE the typical " looks like it has been BENT in the center part of the metal connector end" type of typical usb 3.0 external cable that comes with most external hdd's. This "centerbent" typical type should be BANNED from the market and changed to be this enclosure's type by DEFAULT. 2. Overall product's quality feels right. There are no flimsy corners that I can find and it solidly built without being heavy. 3. Product allows the internal hdd that you install in it to function at correct USB 3.0 speeds. Yes I realize this should be an obvious pro that isn't anything special. You go with dealing with usb 2.0 transferring TB's of data and see how happy you are to have usb 3.0 speeds back. :P Success. 4. Power & data cable appear to plug in snugg with that good solid fit. 5. Product arrived in its entirety and undamaged ( although the retail box of the product arrived in big air bubble wrap, the product's retail box showed no signs of damage and INSIDE the retail box the product and ALL of its included accessories are completely surrounded in CLOSED-CELL-SOFT-foam :D \m/ GOOD JOB Vantec!!) 6. Product arrived FASTER than I anticipated, ( 1.5 days from clicking the Order confirmation button to seeing the item at my doorstep. Newegg AND UPS rock!!) 7. Decent price for what you get. ESPECIALLY the BETTER-ended usb 3.0 printer-like cable connection and not that flimsy ( bent in the middle) typical usb 3.0 cable. 8. Just as slim as in the newegg pictures, thus it doesn't take up a big footprint on my desk for it being an external hdd enclosure.

Cons: 1. There doesn't appear to be any foam or rubber dampening " pieces" anywhere inside the enclosure and there is not any between the hdd and where is mounts to as it is mounted to the inside " sled" with only screws. I"m hoping this won't cause any log term issues/damage to my hdd. Time will tell. My WD My Book External usb 3.0 external enclosure that houses the WD GReen 3TB hdd ( comes stock inside of it) had four full corners of thick rubber pads that were formed to the corners of the hdd. 2. There are NO drilled holes for any form of ventilation. I HOPE that my drive doesn't overheat. ONce in a while I have a ton of movies that I build up that I transfer from my internal 3TB hdd in my pc to this external 3TB hdd, now in THIS enclosure, and that obviously puts the hdd under a load for a good while ( we're talking nothing but blurays here.). 3a. The stand that is included EASILY comes lose. It's as if Vantec/Nextar DIDN'T properly measure either the inside of the outside of the body housing where the stand " slides " into to try semi-locking in place, OR they didn't properly-completely measure the outer size of the little " ball-like" center piece that compliments the outer shell of the enclosure. For this I am knocking an off an egg. It is asinine to have a stand that comes disconnected "TOO" easily. Thus what is the point of including the stand? Truth be told, so far, the stand is doing its job. I wouldn't dare bump the mess out of my desk it is standing the enclosure on though. 3b. The enclosure wobbles side to side by about a small amount VERY easily as a result of the NOT thoroughly thought out stand mounting parts in how it connects to the enclosure. 4. The usb data cable included is SHORT. Would it have killed NexStar or Vantec ( whoever the parent company is) to include a longer cable, such as 5 or 6 feet? It's a good thing my pc is on top of my desk sitting right next to it, or I would have had to purchase a usb 3.0 extension cable HOPING the full usb 3.0 speeds work as they should. I've read reports of some external hdd's not working to function at full usb 3.0 speeds with extension cables that are still rated for usb 3.0 speeds.

Overall Review: ***NOTE***. I DID experience the " throttling" problem that another or other reviewers experienced. However, the ONLY times I experienced that speed throttling down to around 40% to half of the normal usb 3.0 speeds is when I was using mkvmerge to remux movies from .mp4 to .mkv container from the HDD I was transferring movies FROM to the hdd I put inside this enclosure. When the remuxing was finished, the speeds returned to normal after about 3.5 seconds of constant transfer time. This issue could apply to ANY program that is putting the " reading" hdd at full load when trying to transfer movies from it to the "writing" drive aka the one in this enclosure. Keep this in mind before you give this product a low rating. Overall, so far, I'm VERY satisfied with this product and would recommend it for those who are not clumsy-handed and actually take care of their pc gear. I have a friendly **warning** for those new to dealing with transferring a hdd from one external enclosure to another one. I chose not to list this as a CON because there may be something I am misunderstanding or missing. **When I first connected THEN powered on this enclosure, Windows 8.1 immediately recognized it as " ASMT1053". HOWEVER, what disappointed me was that I lost all my data on it as it needed to be reconfigured in Disk Management with either a MBR or GPT type and HAD to reformat it. I am unsure if this is a normal thing when transferring a hdd from one enclosure brand to another. I am not knocking an egg for this for now until I can confirm otherwise.** Just be forewarned NOT to count on your data being preserved AND BACK IT UP FIRST before transferring your hdd from your current enclosure to this one. Ventilation? I feel a little bit of air coming out of the top of the unit ( I have it on the stand where the unit's company branding is easily readable from the side), but I am unsure if overheating will be an issue yet. I am transferring my entire movie collection, currently over 2TB's worth, as we speak and don't feel it even getting warm ( time that has elapsed is over 30 minutes straight now). Perhaps at least an hours worth of constant load on a hdd yields the warm feeling others report. Newegg rocks with fast processing and shipping prep. UPS is still solid on delivery time. Even if I'm wrong and either company operating in normal speed, I guess i got lucky that one of newegg's TN warehouses had one of my products in stock there. I'll post an updated review later.

Pros: Works as advertised. ( sorry newegg another vendor temporarily had a slightly better deal. YOu're always my favorite ftr. I try my best to dissuade b buy customers from wasting their money there and to order from YOU, Newegg, any chance i get. Sincerely. 10+ year customer here.

Cons: People who are allowed to post INCORRECT information in their reviews like " Bradley H. 5-21-2014 at 4:35 p.m. about " putting trash" on your ssd. (facepalm) How do such reviews get approved by the newegg proof reading department? This baffles me.

Overall Review: Bradley H. Your tech knowledge of this product is OBVIOUSLY NOT " High" nor even " Somewhat high". You obviously are just bragging out of almost thin air and have nothing better to do than to use newegg's review system to rant against people who have posted either their seemingly logical opinions or or facts of either them receiving faulty products or if they just never performed garbage collection to keep their ssd's running properly. You think docs, pics, music, and videos are trash, yet have no problem putting GAMES on your ssd? Installing game into your ssd CAN put just as much if not MORE writes into it as at least half of the above combination of four types of content files depending on the combination and individual file size. Singling out games as an exception to your idea of " trash" is as useless and incorrect as thinking drinking salt water right out of the ocean when you are dying of thirst is safe enough to save your life for the long haul vs delivering the salt water into your body rectally ( bear grillis from Man vs Wild mentioned this and I have confirmed this to be correct with more than 4 doctors amongst many fields of medicinal profession from 3 different hospital in the tri county area of my state). Your UNhelpful comment about storing DATA ( which is the ENTIRE POINT of owning a more " permanent" coherent storage device like hard disk drives and ssds) is not beneficial to newegg shoppers and should be completely removed. It's asinine comments like this severely misinform pc tech noobs and later may cause them to chose the wrong things down the road simply because you CLAIMED you were smarter about this technology than you really are. The reason why ssd's DIE within a year can be MANY variables including but not limited to: 1. filling up the drive to within 95% capacity and NEVER performing Garbage Collection, Diskcleanup, Cclean ( ing) from CCleaner, CONSTANTLY " restoring " a system image back to the drive daily which creates BIG writes to the drive itself, and/or any other things that causes the ssd to WRITE files ( hence constantly re installing HUGE things also). I know this FROM EXPERIENCE for the record years ago, yet I STILL don't claim " high " tech knowledge about ssd's. I only have the right to claim that high of know how about them IF i am directly involved with manufacturing the NAND flash that goes into them, or the controller, or some other MAJOR component that " DRIVES" the unit overall. ( Toshiba, for example CAN claim High tech knowledge). This isn't 2009 where you had a 3 letter company's horrible dependability of drives to deal with with your " ssd's are meant for speed and not storage" statement. Times have changed. Kingston is KNOWN for stability and I speak from 10+ years of customer experience with their ram and HAVE NEVER had a stick of ram die on me yet, ( even in my old single core claw hammer amd build with ddr400mhz 2GB total of ram is STILL running as good as year one).