Pros: I forgot to add comments about RAID operation. I planned, for the first time, to use RAID. RAID always scared me, and yet, due to the low cost of HDs now, I found myself with 4 320GB drives! One reason I bought this board was due to its many SATA ports so I could use the latest SATA2 drives. Plugged them all in, followed the excellent Gigabyte manual on how to set them up as RAID10, and presto, it "just worked." Very cool, and I'm a very happy boy.

Cons: I've never had issues with Gigabyte boards (crosses fingers).

Overall Review: Before buying other brands, be sure to read through the comments on Newegg. I found that a certain four-letter major manufacturer had a lot of negative comments. That said, be very aware that people who have problems with stuff *will* comment here about it, yet people who have no problem whatsoever will rarely comment. This gives a very skewed sense of a part's worth. That is, if there's many negative comments, that *may* be the 1% of unhappy buyers, and not the 99% happy ones...

Pros: Good price

Cons: Running WD's own drive test sw showed both drives as defective within days of receiving them. Ordered the RE4 version as replacements (which at least work as-received.) However, getting data off these Caviar Blacks proved to be a real PITA, as the drives would suddenly start consuming 99.99% of the CPU time, and worse, data transfer rates slowed to about 4 kb/sec.... yes, kilobits. I've never seen such an unreliable product, with both drives almost immediately defective, and the incredibly bad reviews they're getting here. (To really see how bad things really are, select reviews from "Last 2 weeks" and see that only 42% of buyers are receiving a working product. How can any drive company stay in business shipping product this bad? All I can think of is that they must be sending flood-damaged products, or maybe using components which were corroded. Base upon the review dates, these drives appear MUCH less reliable than they were a year ago.

Overall Review: What's real frustrating is how misleading these reviews are. Human nature being what it is, we complain WAY more than we complement. So while many of these drives appear to be terrible, are they? For me they were, but what NewEgg could do that would be VERY helpful would be to filter their review stats with how many drives are shipped. That is, if 50% of the reviews say the drives suck, what does that really mean? 50% of how many sold? Are 100% of buyers complaining? No, it's going to be some small vocal percentage, which completely skews the data and makes it much less useful. If NewEgg had another statistic that showed the failure rate *out of all drives of this model sold* it would be infinitely more helpful.

Pros: Run full speed (2113MHz) on a Sabertooth Z77 motherboard. Also, they fit under a Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler.

Cons: None.

Pros: The drives themselves appear to be working fine in spite of the poor packing.

Cons: NewEgg needs to get more serious about their packing. I received two OEM units in their factor bags, sitting in half a styrafoam tray (not fully-enclused), with a single layer of bubble-wrap, in a box of peanuts. Obviously the heavy drives settled to the bottom, and the bubbles on the bottom of the wrap were deflated. This meant that there was zero shock-protection other than the styrofoam tray if and when the box is dropped. Come on guys, another layer of bubble-wrap would have cost, what? I didn't want to ding the drives an egg because of this, but it has to be done. It's not just the drive we're reviewing, but the drive AND whatever damage it incures during shipping. A perfect product that arrives damages doesn't work no matter how good it is... and NewEgg plays a part in that.

Overall Review: How about offering two shipping methods, "regular" which includes lackluster packing, and "best", for a $0.04 premium...

Pros: Silent, no moving parts, and way, way faster than a physical drive. Of course I have nothing to compare to other than my 6-yr old pc, so while there may be faster SSDs out there, this one's so much quicker I'm not complaining.

Cons: None... cost maybe, but that's what we get for ordering cutting-edge stuff.

Overall Review: It'll be interesting to see is how long-term reliability is. Sure there's less heat and no moving parts, but there are about a bazzilian semiconductor junctions in these things which must work perfectly, or else.

Pros: Very quiet! Keeps my i7-3770K at ~70 deg C at 4.4 GHz running at 100% load even on a warm day. At idle it's about 30 dec C. Keep in mind that room temperature makes a BIG difference on how "well" a CPU cooler works. That is, room temperature is the baseline for all temperature increases. If it's a hot day and your room is 30 deg C, the best cooler on earth isn't going to keep your CPU cooler that 30 deg C - air OR liquid-cooled. Keep that in mind when people claim how awesome their cooler is.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Very well designed, good instructions, easy to follow. Also, isn't very heavy, so there wasn't any concern about torquing my CPU off the motherboard. I came >this close< to trying a liquid-cooled setup. Glad I didn't - didn't want the worry of having water high up in my case, all ready to drip into the motherboard or worse - the power supply at the bottom.