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Built tough and excellent materials. Copper-Nickel bottom allows use of all thermal pastes including those with some metal. Comes with pre-applied thermal paste which will be good unless you need Thermal Grizzly etc to overclock. This also at 38db is possibly the quietest LGA 3647 non-aluminum bottom heat sink, great for overclocking.

I have a server with 8 hard drives. (I bought two of these) I wasn't going to use this initially. I thought, once you get everything into the case, you really don't need to touch it, so there's not much of a need for this. I learned some things along the way that weren't immediately obvious. The biggest benefit is that it really helps with cable management. The SATA connectors are all in line. I bought 5 SATA cables with right angle connectors, connecting them from the bottom to top. The cables stack on top of each other, and you can put a zip tie around the cables at the bottom and they're really cleanly organized. While you can do this with drives (I've done it before), removing a drive in the middle can be tough. With the drive bay, you can install the cables before putting the drive in and never have to touch them again. The power cables are the real bonus. Two power connectors which distribute the power to all the drives. Doing this with splitters on individual drive can be a mess. My previous setup was a bit of a mess, it's very clean now because of these. The design of the airflow is smart. Holes in the front and one single fan on the back that pulls air through. The only thing I could think to improve on this would be to have some kind of insert for empty drive bays. As it is, the bulk of the air will flow though the empty slots. I took the cage apart to look at the circuit board, and apart from the LED indicators, it appears that this is just a straight pass-through of the connections from the drive to the SATA connectors on the back. I was worried it had a controller onboard, or something like that. Other general comments: The drive lights are a nice touch. The locks aren't really keyed locks, but they're good if you just want to keep from accidentally ejecting the wrong disk. The drive cages looks really cool when installed. You can install 5 drives in the space that would otherwise hold 4.