Pros: Highest capacity available for consumer SSDs (only one other consumer SSD is this large and it's 2.5"). Longest warranty for this size consumer SSD. Physically more durable than HDDs, More compact than 2.5" SSDs or HDDs.

Cons: Lower warrantied TBW life than TLC and MLC SSDs. Write speed starts to slow considerably around 50% capacity. High overall cost.

Overall Review: I've had this drive installed and operating for only a few days so these are mostly first impressions. I was dismayed when I first received the SSD in a cheap, folded up bubble wrap envelope until I saw the package inside the envelope. Nothing there was especially remarkable until one opens the box and removes what is inside. Inside was a very sturdy, deep drawn, aluminum box about the size of a 2.5" SSD, except it's 13mm thick, with fairly dense removable foam padding to protect the SSD inside (the picture of the open box doesn't contain the SSD since the SSD is installed in my laptop). One could drive a car over this box and not damage the SSD inside (or the box). The SSD itself uses QLC NAND. Since more data is stored per cell, the SSD will have a shorter write life than TLC and MLC SSDs. Also, since each cell is more crowded, data leakage will start happening sooner than with TLC and MLC NAND. However, the TBW rating is still high enough that most people will never come close to exceeding the the TBW rating or experience data leakage during the five year warranty period. The warranty is one year when first purchased but can be upgraded for no charge to five years if the SSD is registered within 90 days of the purchase date. Registering also allows you to upload a copy of the receipt to be kept on file should you lose your copy, which is needed should you need to file a warranty claim. Despite the higher speed of NVMe drives over SATA, I do not recommend this drive for a boot drive unless your computer has room for only one drive and you also need the extraordinary capacity this drive offers. It's better suited for static data storage that is infrequently written but frequently read. I recommend this drive for compact, high capacity, relatively static data storage installed inside a computer. It would not be suitable for use as an external drive unless the drive was powered up frequently and mostly read rather than written to. I chose this drive over the only other 8TB SSD I'm aware of (a 2.5" model), despite being QLC, for it's longer warranty, large capacity, and because it allowed me to keep one of the 2.5" bays in my laptop free for another purpose. Once data has been written to the drive, it will be mostly read only with the only writes being when occasionally adding new data. Since the drive will be powered up frequently and have few writes, it should outlast the warranty without loss of data. My laptop is running on Linux Mint 19.3 booted from an MLC NVMe drive. I have a 4TB 2.5" MLC SSD for data frequently accessed, written, edited, and deleted. TRIM works on this drive. I'm currently populating the drive with data from two 4TB SSDs. To allow me to use my current 4TB SSD backup drives, I partitioned the drive into two equal sized partitions. It took around 18 hours to populate one partition with 3.225TB of data. Transfer speed from a 2.5" 4TB MLC SSD was throttled by SATA interface of the source drive so there was no speed advantage to be gained by the NVMe drive for me. Even when being read inside the computer, there will be no noticeable speed advantage unless working with enormous files (say 50GB-100GB or more), which I will not be doing. Drive temperature during population never exceeded 35°C with a 25.5° ambient temperature and no heat sink on the SSD. Normally, one wants to maintain 20-25% free space on an SSD to help ensure minimal fragmentation (yes, SSDs fragment but that will be kept to a level an SSD can easily handle as long as TRIM is enabled and there is plenty of free space on the drive). Generally, the more often a drive will be written to, the greater amount of free space one wants to maintain. Since my drive will be mostly read only, I can get away with maintaining the lower limit of free space. The one partition I have fully populated is only 80.6% full so there is plenty of free space there. The partition I'm currently populating will not reach maximum usable capacity for quite some time (it will be less than 60% full when I finish copying data from its source drive). Even though I'm copying data from the source drive to the remaining partition on the Sabrent in fairly small batches to avoid overflowing the cache, I'm seeing a noticeable slowdown in write speed. For my use, this won't be a problem because future writes will usually be under 10GB (very occasionally, up to 25GB) and will be one time events, the data then being read only after being written. Update: It's been almost 3 months months since I bought this drive and it is still running just fine. It's still more than fast enough for streaming movies from it.

Pros: I've had excellent luck with Cyberpower products but...

Cons: ...I just found out that through Cyberpower's chat that there is no replacement battery available for it even though the battery is replaceable and the UPS comes with battery replacement instructions. The Cyberpower chat rep said there was no ETA for a replacement battery but suggested that it would be covered under warranty. The voltage readings are 1-2v low. This was verified with my DVOM and another UPS. Also, directions are a bit vague about what some of the features are and how to use them.

Overall Review: While the warranty notice that came with the UPS doesn't specifically exclude batteries, I'll be surprised if the batteries are included in the three year warranty and if the batteries even last that long. Also, it would be a shame to have to throw away the UPS after the warranty runs out just because replacement batteries were not available. If that happens, I'm switching to APC.

Pros: Short length. Flexible small diameter cable. Reasonable price when buying more than one.

Cons: Even shorter would have been nice but I'm getting greedy now.

Overall Review: It's almost impossible to find short USB cables. The longer ones that one normally find waste a lot space on a small desk when connecting peripherals to a laptop. Even if I coiled up the cables, it would result in a messy, cable jungle that still wasted space so, when I saw these little jewels, I was all over them like fleas on a stray dog. Both the short 4" length and the small diameter of the cable make it easy to train the cables to go where I want them. I'm currently using two of them to connect a couple of external SSD enclosures to my laptop. I have the enclosures mounted vertically to reduce the amount of desk space they occupy and these short, flexible cables easily allow me to tuck the enclosures tightly to the laptop despite an Ethernet cable trying to get in the way. I was concerned that the smaller diameter cables would have issues transmitting data and, especially, power but, thankfully, I was wrong and they handle an SSD just fine without a problem. The cables are a bit pricey (even though I thought they were worth it) but, when bought in quantity, the price per cable becomes quite reasonable. Since short cables like these are so hard to find, I'm tempted to buy another set of four. Update: While these cables are still handy due to their short length (BTW, they are 5" from end to end, including the connectors) and work just fine for transferring small amounts of data, when moving large amounts (around 10GB on up), it becomes painfully obvious that these cables are very slow compared to other USB 3.0 cables. The shortest cables I've been able to find that are reasonably fast are 6" (actually 7") long and are rather stiff, making it difficult to impossible to coil up to shorten them. That extra 2" may not seem like a lot but it does make a huge difference for me. I'll still use these cables since they are so convenient but only when making small file transfers.

Pros: Does exactly what it is supposed to.

Cons: Too wide to use side by side.

Overall Review: There isn't much to say about something like this. It does exactly what it's supposed to do. However, the molded plastic case is much too wide. To be able to plug two of them side by side in my laptop, I had to shave off the sides with my band saw, then file and sand out the saw marks. There is still plenty of plastic left on the sides of the adapters so I can see no good reason for them to have been made so wide.

Pros: None

Cons: Didn't work.

Overall Review: I couldn't get this work with or without the PSU. This is the second Startech product in a row I've had problems with. Startech used to put out such reliable products but I won't be buying from them again.

Pros: Works as advertised. Plug and Play, no downloads needed.

Overall Review: I plugged it into a USB 3.0 port in my computer, plugged in the Ethernet cable, and it worked. No muss or fuss. When I wrote the manufacturer to ask if it would work with Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3, the person responding said they didn't know. I decided to take a chance on it anyway and found it works right out of the box.

When I placed an order with them, I quickly received an email saying the order was being shipped by "Expedited Shipping (3-5 bus. days)" and gave me a tracking number supposedly was for the USPS. After several days of the USPS tracking pagre not showing that they had received it, I contacted 3C "Expert" asking why? At first, they claimed that the number was a carrier confirmation number, not a tracking number. When I asked for the real tracking number, they gave me the same number. They alternated between claiming the number was not a tracking number and was a tracking number a couple of times before they finally admitted the order was shipped via the USPS using a service that couldn't be tracked online. Even worse, the estimated delivery time had increased from 3-5 business days to 7-14 days. 7-14 days for a package going from California to Arizona? Adding insult to injury, they blamed the time needed on the current pandemic, which is utter nonsense because I've had no problems with recent orders shipping in a timely manner. The only conclusion I can reach is 3C "Expert" is grossly incompetent, a pack of liars, or both! So far, I have not received the package. Even if Arizona freezes over in July and 3C "Expert" is the only vendor in the world that has what I am looking for, I will never order from them again!