Joined on 02/12/01
So far so good. It's Fasssst!
Pros: I replaced a failed Corsair SSD with this and got a great deal at $85 after rebate. It's Fasssst. For those getting 7.4 instead of 7.9 on Windows experience rating, it's likely because you haven't enabled AHCI in the bios. Try searching for "enable AHCI without reinstalling windows"
Cons: No cons so far but after the Corsair SSD failed and reading others with various makes of failed SSD's, I'm a little bit leary of trusting them completely. For that reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5. I make sure to keep OS drive images in case of failure. You don't get much if any warning when they go.
Worked great at first
Pros: Not top of the line anymore but was good for the money or so I thought.
Cons: Died in 6 months. Both fans just stopped spinning so i assumed it burned out. I'm not a big gamer so wasn't taxing the card hard. I was just browsing the web when it died. Put an older AMD 6850 that this card replaced back in and it worked fine.
Cable failed
Pros: None. Didn't work Getting kind of tired of buying cheap junk on newegg when it costs more to return it than it's worth.
Cons: Was replacing older Cat5 cable with the Cat6 to go with a gigabit router. It was only 20' but it failed to work. A longer 50' worked ok though. Go figure.
Slower speeds and unreliable transfers
Pros: Cheap but you get what you pay for, I guess.
Cons: Unreliable speed and file transfers make this cable useless to me.
Overall Review: I got this cable today to pair with a Hitach Touro mobile harddrive. It sees the drive but in testing the transfer speeds are much lower using this cable and it freezes up for long periods during transfers. What's worse is on one test file I tried copying back from the external drive, Windows stopped and said the file no longer existed. I rebooted and it did the same thing again. I removed this extension cable and plugged the drive directly in to the same usb 3.0 port and there were no problem.