Pros: This drive is very fast and it's just a card (it doesn't take up an HDD bay)

Cons: It doesn't appear as a standard SATA drive or SATA controller (it appears as two SATA controllers that use a non-standard driver). Not supported by every operating system. It works fine under Linux (no driver needed) and Windows (with the included driver), but other operating systems usually see only the two halves of the drive (not as a RAID device, which prevents booting, although it will work as a non-boot drive if you configure the RAID manually), or nothing at all.

Other Thoughts: If all you are using is Linux and/or Windows, this drive will work fine. If you use any other operating systems, you're pretty much out of luck. Maybe I'm being picky, but I strongly believe that hardware should be standard and not designed with only Windows / Linux in mind. I'm not sure if any data recovery companies could handle this drive, so back up any important files.

Pros: I have the Core i7 920, which was the first Core i7 CPU and is known to run hot. It uses socket LGA1366. On the stock heatsink I was getting temperatures of over 90 Celsius under full load, which is almost at the maximum temperature that this CPU can withstand. With this heatsink I am getting 65 under full load.

Cons: Several times the size of the stock heatsink, but that's what makes it effective. Required removing the motherboard for installation of the backplate, but that's true for many different heatsinks so not really much of a con. Fan is somewhat noisy but not excessively so.