Joined on 03/12/06
Wonderful for the price paid!!

Pros: I've bought 3 of these, one for a true backup and gutted two of them for added space on my synology NAS. Sure TLER might be disabled and any warranty voided, but getting a WD Red 8TB Helium drive for $250 is a hard deal to pass up when it comes to massive amounts of storage for cheap. All were instantly recognized by windows and received no errors when testing before freeing them from the enclosure.
Cons: I had one unit drop/pickup midway through a huge file transfer, and my mobo usb ports were set to never turn off power. This happened multiple times, but once gutted and placed in my NAS functions flawlessly - so as with many external HD's, the interface and firmware can be twitchy/buggy.
Overall Review: I have not tried any of the WD backup software. WD Red 8tb helium drive for $250 - nuff said!! Runs at about 90F degrees when in a 75 degree room in my DS1515 NAS, backup unit is much, much hotter in the enclosure with no fan - will longevity be compromised by case/lack of air movement?
Does what I expected...after some frustration

Pros: Now have USB 3.0 on the front face of my older Antec 1200 case. Holds a SSD drive
Cons: Made entirely of plastic, front breather panel pops out, cables don't line up with holes in front, usb cables just held in place by the plastic frame, mounting screws barely bite cause they have to thread themselves into the plastic frame. I had to remove the panel one time during installation and once after I moved my computer cause the plastic clips that hold the USB cables in place would let it go from the long cable/weight and mobo mounting location. The result of this movement means that the female end of the cable(at the faceplate) would be out of alignment with the front panel and you wouldn't be able to push in a cable. Overall it feels very cheap and could certainly use some design improvements.
Great product for the money!!

Pros: Quiet when in eco mode, which is good for about 400watts of output, then throttle ramps up. For $359 on sale, there is not a better price or comparable product out there. Wonderfully packed, and arrived in only a few days. I added oil, pulled the cord a few times to lubricate the internals, added gas and it fired on the 4th pull. I've used this a few times for about 8-10 hours total and it fires on the 2nd or 3rd pull everytime. It's already saved about $350 worth of groceries from our last outage so it's already paid for itself in my opinion. Wonderful for the money, and has ran two fridges, LED lights, plasma TV, etc. without issue so far!
Cons: You certainly feel like you are taking a chance with this, knowing that comparable Chinese inverter generators are in the $450-$600 range and Generac/Yamaha/Honda units want nearly a grand. Perhaps it really is all about markup and profit for those companies!?
Overall Review: I would absolutely purchase this again, for the money it really is a no brainer!
Half baked??

Pros: Great FPS improvement over 2gb gtx 760...but that is it...
Cons: 1. No driver disk in box, means I had to dl everything from gigabyte website, which was more like brail with the driverless/awful/distorted resolution on my 34" monitor. Oh but it came with a super sweet wrist band - lol! 2. The Fans - where to begin...there is no control over them with the app(or any other app from MSI/EVGA/etc.) The app does control the lighting, so I know it's working however. The fans go from dead quiet to 100% jet engine loud 30 seconds into playing a game and do not ever go back too quiet unless the computer is hard rebooted, even a soft reboot won't change their speed. Mapping the fan ramp up speed via the app(or others) does nothing. I left the computer idle for 8 hours after playing a game and the fans were still spinning at 100%, meanwhile the GPU temps showed 30c. The Gigabyte app shows nothing for the fan monitoring as well, just blank, at zero. 3. Displayport will not output, tried two different cables, no dice. Both worked just fine with my GTX760. 4. Games constantly crash - Doom, CS:GO, GTA V, Dying Light, all crash to a black screen/reboot automatically. SupCom 2 won't even load...
Overall Review: Update: 7/28. I'm returning this card. After more than a week of tweaking my system/testing/removing/reinstalling old and new drivers/apps/etc. I'm convinced this card is defective. It just does not work right, nor do the gigabyte apps(or any others) have an effect on the fans. I cannot live with a card where I can't play my games and has fans which go from 0 to 100% and never throttle back even when my computer is idle. I had such high hopes for this card too, bummer...
Can't be beat the current clearance price!!

Pros: If you're like me and want a big display at a good price, without having to worry about driving a 4k panel with an older graphics card, this is the ticket. If you're one of the other folks to get it for $400 on clearance, woot!! I swapped my 27" LG panel for this, as the 27" was enough for playing games, but not for working at home on the occasions I get the opportunity. This monitor has great color, clarity, contrast, and room for any of my workplace needs and running multiple sessions of Excel creating budgets/proposals. Pixel density is as expected and I have no issue with small print/text, lines/border in Excel, etc. For gaming my OC'd GTX 960 can still keep games playable(Dying Light, Counterstrike, etc.), and was one of my main reasons for getting this. For the majority of us, the reality of 4k is still a few years off(both in bandwidth and in budget). Factor in the fact that OLED destroys any other display technology and is still a few years away from being mainstream in the computer monitor market, and I see this monitor being the best case scenario for budget/value at this time. In 3 years will I upgrade to an OLED panel and a 1080TI (or 1180 by then?) video card pushing 4k on a perfectly black OLED panel - absolutely. But why on earth would I spend $1000+ on a monitor and another $650 on a video card knowing that the next few years will yield some amazing advancements in video card processors/tech as well as display technologies? It doesn't make sense....This monitor and your current video card that can push 1080p nicely in games is all one needs unless you have a huge wallet and need to be on the bleeding edge of technology every year. For the average person, this is it!!
Cons: Not 4k, Not OLED, no crazy refresh rates etc. This monitor really has no faults for the discounted asking price. At $600 - probably not worth buying, but at $400?? I ordered it without questioning myself any further.
Overall Review: $400 for a 34" panel that looks great and I don't need to upgrade my video card - Win!! Still waiting on that displayport cable I ordered at the same time Newegg!!! 3+ days behind is pathetic.
Great drive, great price

Pros: I bought two of these on sale for $119 6 months ago. I pulled the drive out of the case and made them internal drives for $60 cheaper than you could find the same drive bare. They have been working flawlessly on my HTPC since, zero issues at all. Looking to buy a few more now. 100mb/sec transfer rates are pretty standard.
Cons: Get them out of the case and you have a cheap 4tb internal drive. Leave them in the case and they seem to get hot quick, which might kill longevity
Overall Review: As close as you can get for a reliable, fast 4tb drive nearing the $100 range.
Beware...
I got overseas units that took weeks to get here and came in a pungent toxic smelling wrapped box. I was like, "what the F is this, and it's from China?" and they are clearly not meant for the US market as the boxes have Chinese writing all over them, but hopefully they will work fine. The internal boxes came destroyed and look like they have been sitting in the sun for decades, been compressed a few hundred times, and then had water damage, so again, buyer beware...I am building the computers now to see if the parts work. Ever since Newegg switched to this market place format, it has been nothing but issues...and this is just the same story. Sorry Newegg, but others (AMZN?) will be getting my business from here on out as I hate your new marketplace selling format and you don't seemingly vet any of your sellers. Go back to the company you were 5-10 years ago, we all miss that!!!
Can't beat it for the price
For the price, this is a great drive, no doubt about it. I got (2) 2 TB's installed in a MSI Ace Z490, for cheaper than two comparable Samsung 970 gen 3 drives, and these are maxing out the available 3.0 pcie bus speeds for now. Once the updated Rocket Lake cpu's are released, I hope to swap the CPU and have these running at pcie 4.0 on the same mobo (crossing fingers). This is certainly the downside of having to build a computer as everything is evolving, but these should help future proof things a little bit. The samsung 980's are already much faster, but are going to be way more expensive. So far these are working exactly as planned/hoped and should last me the duration of this machine!
Can't beat it for the price
For the price, this is a great drive, no doubt about it. I got (2) 2 TB's installed in a MSI Ace Z490, for cheaper than two comparable Samsung 970 gen 3 drives, and these are maxing out the available 3.0 pcie bus speeds for now. Once the updated Rocket Lake cpu's are released, I hope to swap the CPU and have these running at pcie 4.0 on the same mobo (crossing fingers). This is certainly the downside of having to build a computer as everything is evolving, but these should help future proof things a little bit. The samsung 980's are already much faster, but are going to be way more expensive. So far these are working exactly as planned/hoped and should last me the duration of this machine!