Pros: Good speed, boots the system up fast. Runs cool and quiet. Toshiba's toggle NAND is used in lots of the fastest SSDs currently sold. Drive was well packaged.

Cons: Package doesn't include any tools and makes no mention of the free NTI clone software that they make available. They also don't have any sophisticated tools on their website to monitor and tune the disk. Toshiba has been an OEM supplier of SSDs to laptop manufacturers up to this point, and they haven't quite made a smooth transition to SSD retailer yet.

Overall Review: Drive went into an older mid-range desktop which had already had a CPU upgrade but was still slow to boot. Bought an SSD because I was tired of hearing that computer's disk clicking away and hearing about how slowly it booted. Installing this drive (256GB) as the boot drive solved both of those issues. Computer only has SATA II capabilities, so the drive is not currently the bottleneck. Drive will also run faster if/when we upgrade the computer to something more modern. Don't know about reliability yet. Toshiba makes OEM drives for several PC makers and makes the NAND that goes into this drive. So I have hope:O). Got it at a great price, so it was worth taking the chance.

Pros: Large Cache. Good Spindle Speed. Long Warranty.

Cons: Of two ordered and placed into service as part of an array in a server, one has failed already. Any drive can fail, but expected better from higher priced enterprise class drive. -1 egg for early failure. -1 egg for having to pay shipping to replace a defective product (see other thoughts).

Overall Review: Ordered Enterprise class drives as the OS/Program drives in a server mostly due to their speed and longer warranty. Higher Priced Enterprise Drive + Early Failure + General pain in the patoot to RMA the drive + Having to pay shipping to replace defective product = Disgruntled Customer. My customer is understanding about failing drives, but is on pins and needles until the replacement drive arrives and is rebuilt into the array. I find it very irritating that I have to pay the shipping (almost 10% of the price of the product) to return a defective product for exchange. If I had just changed my mind that would be one thing, but having to pay to return a bricked drive is extremely galling.

Pros: It is made of metal which should help dissipate heat. It surrounds the drive tightly. It is thin and is contoured so that it feels sleek and sexy. Seems to work OK. I haven't run benchmarks on it, since I don't care because I don't do a lot of moving files back and forth off from it.

Cons: The screws used to assemble the case are VERY small, and the screwdriver provided is lousy (and not magnetized). This makes it relatively difficult to assemble.

Overall Review: As I put the drive into it, I invented many new and special words, and thought "I am glad I won't ever need to do this again". But I like the feel of the case so well that I will probably swap the drives between what I put in this case and a better drive that I put into another case that I don't like the feel of nearly as well. Technically both cases are OK, but the overall experience of carrying and using this case is superior.

Pros: Metal enclosure which should dissipate heat. It was relatively easy to install the hard drive, and the screwdriver included was better than most. Seems to work well for its intended use, which was to reuse a left-over laptop hard drive.

Cons: None at this time

Overall Review: The enclosure feels big and bulky with squarish corners compared to other enclosures. It is hard to slide it into the cheap leatherette sleeve provided.

Pros: Easy to install the disk drive into the enclosure. Runs relatively fast on its USB3 interface.

Cons: Not my favorite tool less design. Once when I was inserting the USB cord in the front, it pushed the drive back and opened the back as well. This does not harm anything, but now I hold the back as I insert the cable to prevent it from happening again.

Overall Review: White plastic feels relatively cheap. Oh wait, it was cheap. I normally like metal cases for heat dissipation, but since I was putting an SSD into it, I didn't think it was necessary in this case.

Pros: Bought as an upgrade to stock memory. Runs fast, cool, and I have never had g.skill memory fail in any build.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Not using any of the extended configurations to overclock the RAM, but it is fast enough and is totally reliable. The extra RAM in the system is has reduced paging and made the development system much more responsive.

Seller did well and I would order from them again. Drive was rather old (manufactured in Oct 2017), but SMART data showed 0 power-on-hours. Did a long format to scan every sector which took a long time, but the drive shows no problems. Using it in an external enclosure to back up my MicroServer and it is doing that job well. Don't have enough time on it to rate longevity, but HGST helium drives tend to be reliable.