Pros: Simply put, this is quality memory from a quality company and includes a solid warranty and good speed for a great price. I'll definitely buy it again when I build my next Sandy box.

Cons: The top heatsink fins are tall, conflicting with many CPU coolers, but can be removed if you don't mind voiding the warranty and your case cooling is adequate to keep the ram cooled (memory ramsinks, as on this product, are more decorative than necessary). Simply slit the sticker running along the top spine and very carefully pry the two halves apart. The thermal tape will give you some resistance but with very slow and careful movement it can be done quite easily. It would have been nice for Corsair to make the fins removable as on the Dominator series so this type of operation would not be necessary.

Other Thoughts: Used on a 2500k build using a Noctua NH-D14 which is listed on the official site as being incompatible with this memory, so if you want this combination you will have to remove the ramsinks. There is no other way to make it work. Good luck!

Pros: Bought this on sale at another site to expand my archive array. I have mostly WD Black 640/750s with a couple of Samsung 1tbs thrown in the mix for good measure. The drive performance is great as a storage/archive drive, but of course not fast enough for gaming or Windows usage if you are a power user. Win7 64 had no problems detecting, initializing, and formatting the drive and I was up and running with it in under 5 minutes.

Cons: Consistent and nonstop "Device detected a controller error" events in the windows event log regardless of motherboard used. SMART shows Ultra DMA CRC errors as well but not too many, and these seem dependent on the motherboard chipset. Hitachi drive analysis tool says the drive is healthy (both simple and advanced tests) but the drive causes Win7 64 to lock randomly followed by the drive disappearing from Windows completely. The event log always shows dozens of controller errors when this happens. The drive causes this problem regardless of what chipset is used (tried P35/ICH9R, P45/ICH10R, and an old nForce4) and no other drive in my array (14 hard drives in total) displays this problem. Also attempted reverting from ACHI mode to IDE mode but this failed to make any impression.

Other Thoughts: Looks like its about time for another RMA. Very disappointed to be proven correct that >1tb technology is still highly dubious in quality. This is my 3rd straight failure with 2tb drives and I probably will not keep the warranty service drive when it comes back.