Pros: Intel quality. Intel validation. Intel. It works, its fast and its fast.

Cons: Slightly more expensive than other drives. See comment below why I still choose this drive.

Overall Review: Yes, you can buy another SSD for same capacity and maybe even slightly faster for $20-30 less. I would rather pay a slight premium for this Intel product. Why? $20 is nothing compared to the downtime if a firmware fails, yes Intel isn't completely innocent on this front either in the past, but no one can deny they put more effort into validation and debugging. As for the extra speed on some of the other drives? Does it really matter? Will you really notice the difference? Plus, life is always a tradeoff, assuming they're using similar chips (e.g., Micron/Crucial and Intel drives chips come from the same Fab), it's the controller / firmware that is different. And firmware can always be tuned towards more performance or reliability. I choose reliability.

Pros: Great mouse. Great comfort. Great sensitivity.

Cons: The buttons break, this is my 3rd pair (too lazy to warrantee so 3rd purchase). After ~1 year of clicking, the mouse would double click on every single click.

Pros: Great board while it worked... needed to update BIOS to use GTX Titan.

Cons: Motherboard now bricked trying to use the Intel Windows BIOS update utility. Now on the phone >10mins wait time for Intel customer support...

Pros: Great product for great price. Much lighter than I thought. Fan does not spin up at all for normal operation. Japanese Capacitors, High Quality Parts.

Cons: Coil Whine!!! Coil Whine!!! Coil Whine!!! I don't know if this is because its just my unit and I got unlucky? But there is a distinct pitch of coin whine!! So annoying! This is really sad because the Antec ECO 520W I was replacing this with was /completely/ silent.