Pros: It's a DVD reader.

Cons: A bit noisey. Not fast. No surprises here.

Overall Review: Use a powered hub. A general rant about the possibility of actually getting a rebate (fill in your own experience, here). Whoever created the marketing concept of creating a frustrating bureaucracy as a sales generation philosophy didn't do anyone a favor. It's an okay drive at an okay price and at the end of the rebate process I find myself basically annoyed at the mention of company name "ASUS." Rant concluded; carry on.

Pros: None

Cons: Thought I could get away with using this in a low if, low power environment. It died 6 weeks in.

Overall Review: Just don't do it

Pros: Not sure, since it doesn't work.

Cons: No software works so far to clone to it - error after error. I also tried a backup and then a restore to the SSD, it still errors out. Using EaseUS and Macrium Reflect. HD Tune says C7 Interface CRC Error Count, though no other drive in my system is having an error or trouble. Also gives warnings on C4 Reallocated Event Count. The company does seem to have proprietary software to do the same thing though I have no reason to believe it would be any more successful - plus they charge a very pretty penny for it.

Overall Review: It's not at all frustrating to spend this much money and then invest this much troubleshooting time just so that I can RMA.

Pros: None

Cons: I'm an experienced tech with over 30 years experience. This is easily the worst board I've ever purchased, that worked. First, booting is default to AHCI. If you are doing an upgrade from IDE format this can corrupt your drive installation requiring a wipe and reinstall. Second, the sound out plug does not work, period. I'll need to purchase a separate sound card. The board was sitting in a box for a month before install so I'm beyond the registration period, apparently. Actually, that's what I'm doing on the site right now, buying a stand alone sound card. Software that comes with the board is primarily bloatware, designed to slow down your bootup sequence and generally drag the system down.

Overall Review: What was I thinking?

Pros: Cheap, and not in the good way.

Cons: I am receiving failure immenent in just over a month of use.

Overall Review: I had never purchased a Hitachi drive for my own use as a separate item. I've seen them as standalone or in laptops or desktops folks have brought to me for repair and must say they are uniquely difficult to work on. Shame on WD for allowing this product line to darken their name. In response to the other poster here who does not like Newegg packaging - I can say I haven't had any complaints. They've always been at least double bubble wrapped, which I think should get through most shipping conditions. This particular drive I purchased from an in-store source in original packaging.

Pros: One worked! I have an exender that will work with a replacement of a different brand!

Cons: One didn't work! It did work, for about three months, that is. Then it died. A second identical adapter still works just fine in the computer in any usb port. I used the adapter on a desktop computer. At first I had it plugged into a back usb port and it worked fine. When it started getting glitchy I moved it to a front port. No good. I used the USB extention hardwire cable that came with it. No good. I placed the adapter to stand up so it would help the built-in antenna face directly to the wireless router to increase the throughput. No good.

Overall Review: I'm cheap and so is this adapter. You roll the dice, you gamble, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... "Pretty red and thorny flower + opposite of won't" adapter sale, here I come!!