Pros: This drive is very fast; I benched it at 260/79 mb/s sequential 500mb with CrystalDiskMark x64 before even installing SATA drivers. Wow. The disk is also recognized as 80.17gb raw space, so that's a nice bump too. It runs so cool that as a system drive I still can't tell it's been running by touching it--another name-brand SSD rated for 2w active .5w idle would heat up like a mechanical hard drive. When this one said 150mW active, I was suspicious of the low rating. Temps alone make this very easy to believe after owning one. If you happened to not look at the pictures, it does come with a full length SATA cable, a very heavy, sturdy 3.5" drive adapter and 5 each of drive and case screws (they knew I'd drop one!) Oh, and the boss graphics "Speed Demon."

Cons: It is still very expensive, but not too much above similar capacity drives with poorer review track records

Overall Review: If you are concerned about power consumption or read-benchmark bragging rights, this is the drive for you. Still don't know what I'm going to do with the sticker...it's too big to be a case badge and wouldn't really look nice on anything else...haha Specs: win7x64 gigabyte ga-ma790xt-ud4p 4gb corsair xms3 -ATI- 5750

Pros: Fast write speeds, SATA III, Made in USA, 2.5->3.5 bracket. Finally a capacity decent for a system drive at a decent (~$1/gb) price when on sale

Cons: Was not recognized by my (SATA-II) Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P board. I had to format it with the Windows 7 setup disk on an ancient (SATA-I) Dell Optiplex 620GX before I could even view it in the bios or my existing Win7 Ultimate install. After loading the OS, I benched it with CrystalDiskMark and it told me the drive was not attached so I did a windows disk scan and found bad clusters (not bad sectors)...The guy on their forum assured me the drive is fine. And so far it has been...

Overall Review: This disk is significantly slower at reads than a 2nd gen Intel x-25M 80gb. By about 30%. Mushkin recommended using ATTO benchmark software, which gave read results comparable. But the Intel then gave 1,800 MB/s write, so I'm hesitant to trust that software. I'm hoping a new SATA-III board will alleviate these crazy (unimpressive) bench results. CrystalDiskMark x64 3.0.1 results: Size: Read: Write: (MB/s) seq 177 175 512k 163 176 4k 18 41 4kQD32: 98 13

Pros: In repeater mode, it can take a wifi network and translate it to ethernet, which is great for older hardware or if you don't want to buy another wifi card Operates on 12v so I'm considering wiring it to my tower psu and getting rid of the wall wart.

Cons: Its wifi connection drops and instantly reconnects regularly (every 20 seconds) for my phone only (moto g). Ethernet connection and other wifi devices (other phones, laptops) stay connected. Putting in repeater mode without asus device discovery application already installed on your computer will disconnect your pc from the router admin website and necessitate a hard reset of the router settings if you ever want to use them again. Sometimes doesn't pick up the original wifi network when the original is cycled off and on, requiring the repeater to also be power cycled

Overall Review: Using it for repeating a mobile hotspot from an iphone 10 running ios 14.6 so I can connect more than 5 clients since this is my only home internet source. I am not knowledgeable about network settings so maybe something is set improperly for my use. One thing to be aware of: setting it to repeater mode will instantly change the router IP address and prevent you from using the settings page any longer. If you missed the step of downloading the "asus device discovery" app from the settings page beforehand, you will need to reset the router and download it using the link included in the settings BEFORE setting up as repeater. I could not find a place online to download the app; the asus website doesn't bring up a download source when searching for it; the website only tells you how to use it.

Pros: Fast. Don't bother with the 3770K; these can go way faster than 3.1ghz!

Cons: Poor included heat sink

Overall Review: In a previous post, I complained about the high temps for this cpu. Yes, I have reseated the hs and ensured even paste distribution. What I forgot was to keep in mind that this chip is -designed- to go 3.1ghz. When I use tuning software to force 3.1ghz, it runs at around 140-150F fully loaded with my aftermarket hs/f. When it is clocked at 3.9ghz fully loaded, it pushes 190F. 4.0ghz is doable with a fsb bump, but it still nears the redline. Maybe water cooling would perform better. With my 120mm cooler and ~75F ambient, I have found that 3.7ghz is a safe speed to run at 24/7; staying around 165F. I plan to look into undervolting soon; heard from anandtech that these run fine on lower voltages. Hope this helps.

Pros: Dirt cheap. 8gb. Didn't lose all my data when it failed. Other two work fine still.

Cons: One of three drives I bought slowed down to a glacial pace after about 4 months; to the point where World Community Grid would give errors that the data directory was missing.

Overall Review: I am using these as system drives for Linux Mint 12 on some old boxes in order to run WCG 24/7, which makes frequent reads/writes. The drive didn't fail and lose data but did slow to the speed of 3(!) IOP/s for the 4k write test using CrystalDiskMark. Read speeds are still fine but I'm leery of putting important stuff on it. I'd say for the abuse it's been put through, this is a good performing (although slow, in absolute terms) budget drive. If you need performance, check out the Patriot Xporter XT.

Pros: 8Gb, works, heat spreader, inexpensive. runs at advertised speeds and timings

Cons: The heat spreader looks cheap compared to the 4Gb Corsair Dominator kit it replaced. Not a big deal since you get what you pay for and I'd rather have reliable memory than a solid-looking extruded heat sink.

Overall Review: My motherboard does not allow undervolting, so these are running at 1.6v. Should work fine until I build my new ivy bridge system this summer, which supports 1.5v natively. amd phenom IIx4 945 gigabyte ga-ma790xt-ud4p