Pros: - no tinkering required with b650 motherboard

Overall Review: Using with Gigabyte Auros B650m Elite AX motherboard and seemed to come right up with appropriate settings. Price was good, dont care about RGB but that can be disabled through the motherboard.

Pros: - solid build it seems - lots of features (Bluetooth, WiFi, PCIe 5 NVMe slot)

Cons: - no manual included

Overall Review: Everything worked great with 7800x3D. Was an older BIOS, but flashing that was simple enough. I did end up having to disable the iGPU when booting into Linux (Arch) for some reason, but that is likely an AMD + Nvidia + Arch thing. Motherboard doesnt come with manual, I guess, so had to pull that up online to check pinouts and RAM slots, which is kind of annoying.

Pros: Cheap Fast (at least somewhat fast)

Cons: Didn't reach 5000MB/s, but seems fine

Overall Review: I got this on sale with a rebate, and it was a great deal. I rolled the dice a bit to use it on my PS5, and it works fine, but the benchmark on the PS5 shows around 3800MB/s. I've seen people use similar drives, even this one I believe, and see 5600MB/s. It does seem the benchmark on the PS5 is off, I'm not terribly concerned there though. I loaded some games to it and played RE Village and it loaded nearly instantly, any difference from the internal drive is negligible, I've seen other reviews/tests say the same. At worst this drive becomes a bottleneck in the future, but for now it's fine. At that point, this drive can store the "older" games and the newer ones go internal. I added a heatsink to the drive for the PS5 as recommended, I picked up one that everyone seems to be using.

Pros: - Low Price - Capacity - Decent Speed (100-110MB/s write, 140-150MB/s read sequential)

Cons: - Older drive, warranty may be nearly expired if not already

Overall Review: Received this drive a few days ago and have copied about 1TB or data and ran it through badblocks a couple of times without any errors or bad sectors found yet. These got really good reliability ratings as well. Be sure to test it out as much as possible when you get it as the warranty is likely expired since these drives are likely from 2011-2012. The price is great compared to newer drives and they seem to be solid drives. I believe the seller offers a 30 or 90 day return at least, if you cant get help from Hitachi.

Pros: Cools well

Cons: Huge

Overall Review: Using this on an i7-2600K with MX-4 thermal grease and am getting low 60s on a 4.4GHz OC. Didn't try with any other cooling, so I don't have anything to compare it with, but seems to be cooling as well as others

Pros: Transfers heat

Cons: None

Overall Review: Used this for my new i7-2600K build with a Hyper 212+ cooling fan. I don't have a baseline to compare with, but from the papers on it temps should be a few degrees cooler. Enough to do a few applications at least, I have redone mine once already.