Pros: So far, so good. Decent speeds, runs cool, and you don't have to apply the WDIDLE3 firmware fix to prevent excessive head parking (recommended for WD Green drives).

Cons: None. My media center is full of Western Digital drives, as is my home server (been burned too many times by another company that rhymes with 'rebate').

Overall Review: - In my opinion, the warranty could be a bit longer (three years would be nice?)...but no company seems to want to provide generous coverage for hard drives anymore. - Be aware that WD Green drives were retired and are now the WD Blue series...these are not 7200 RPM, like the old Blue drives used to be!

Pros: Nice, slick design. Sound padding is well thought out and effective. Versatile, can even remove one hard drive block for larger video cards or even to turn it sideways. Room for liquid cooling: I used a Corsair H60 mounted at the rear fan port. Optical drive slot cover mechanisms are very neat, wish every manufacturer used this design.

Cons: Power LED is a super bright blue: distracting for watching HTPC stuff in dark rooms, so I unplugged it. Included fans are ok, but are a bit noisy (more of an audible whoosh than an actual whine, so not that bad) at normal speeds. Included fan controller is very cheap: tiny blobs of glue used to keep it together fell apart, making plugs fall out (plugs are very loose and don't stay in by themselves, so glue is necessary). Nothing worth dinging an Egg for, just observations.

Overall Review: Wish it had more than one front USB 3.0, but not a big deal. Fractal makes good stuff.

Pros: This is the fastest Survivor drive I have seen yet: just a smidgen under 200 Mb/s using HDtune, observed sustained 98mb/sec in large file transfers with Windows 7 64-bit. Throw in the exceptional toughness, and this is just the latest in a long line of Survivor drives I have had on my keychain (16, 32, 64, and now 128 gb) for a few years now. Great for transferring ISO images, system backup images and other assorted stuff. I'd personally recommend formatting this using the exFAT file system, unless you like ejecting the drive every single time you remove it within the OS to avoid the eventual 'do you want to fix/this drive has errors' messages (NTFS), or being limited to >4 gb file sizes (FAT32).

Cons: Corsair? Please add an eyelet hole to both the drive and the case. Give people a choice. Please? You used to do that, way back when...but you stopped. I'm still using the case from my very first Survivor, since you stopped putting eyelets on the cases. Who wants a heavy set of keys dangling from their USB port? Can it be that hard to just...add a hole to both the drive and the case? Come on, guys. Also, I'd make an effort to add some kind of flat spots to the external rubber gasket rings: as it is now, the case is way too willing to roll away from you on a flat surface with the tiniest of inclines. This is a very minor gripe, though.

Pros: Just what I was looking for: my motherboard supports everything except the internal USB 3.0 connector, so these pass through cables are wonderful. No more dragging the case out to access the 3.0 ports! As an added bonus, it has spaces for mounting a 2.5" drive or two, in case you are using a laptop or SSD drive, which is a nice thought.

Cons: Cables are rather stiff: passing them through to the back while being mindful of cable management can be a pain.

Overall Review: Silverstone makes good stuff.

Pros: Wonderful, slick design, a lot more room than my old Antec 900, fairly easy to route cables and connectors. Love the top SATA hard drive connector! Interesting video card bracket. More places for fans than I have ever seen in a case before. Solid black everything looks amazing.

Cons: Not a lot of cons. The bottom floor filter doesn't attach in a way that I am particularly fond of...but that is a small nitpick.

Overall Review: Best case design I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them as a computer repair tech.

Pros: G.Skill has my money: these things perform beautifully. Nothing beats 8GB of this with a quad core Q9650 in my book.

Cons: Going to DDR3 will be painful, considering the ridiculously low prices on this stuff.