Pros: This case comes with everything you need to configure in any configuration you can imagine. The metal pieces are well manufactured. They give you excessive amounts of items for each configuration. The manufacturing is excellent. It makes cable management really easy, and the smoked glass and chrome mounts are beautiful. It's great for an open case and a wall mount.

Cons: I used an off the shelf, closed loop water cooler where the tubes were slightly shorter than I needed to mount the way I wanted without going to a custom cooling configuration. The documentation could be a little better as I was stumped for a while trying to figure out which pieces I needed or wanted in order to mount things the way I wanted.

Overall Review: Worth every penny.

Pros: When I first installed a clean version of Windows OS on this, it was getting near 5,000MB/s speeds on an Asus Crosshair VIII Hero. It's blazingly fast and the heat sink makes it look pretty cool. The only issue is that with the Asus motherboard, the bottom m.2 slot is unencumbered, but the top one has it's own cover and chipset fan. Putting it in the bottom one will sometimes cause the motherboard bios to think the other drive is the boot one.

Cons: This product product was purchased in February and failed in November. It had 220GB left on the drive, but even with that the drive slowed down to less than 40% of it's original speed. I used it for heavy reading and writing including large downloads that I would copy off the drive, a database, some development work, some benchmarks, and Nvidia shadowplay temp storage. It was a lot of big writes and then deletes as well as a lot of really fast small writes and updates. This turned out to be way too much for the device. It failed & this and other devices wouldn't even recognize the device afterwards. Complete hardware failure.

Overall Review: I don't think 9 months is a long enough windows of use. I can probably get a replacement under the manufacturers warranty, but I'm worried to have to go through the same failure with the same model. As it fills up, the speed reduces dramatically. I'll probably try a bigger drive 2 Terabytes and a different vendor.

Pros: It's Asus, so that means it's always high quality.

Cons: Doesn't work with PCIE 4.0 native. It is an expensive riser cable. Also the slots for the card don't match up on my Thermaltake P7 case unlike the ribbon I was replacing.

Overall Review: This riser ribbon was to replace a Thermaltake one. In the description it claimed it was PCIE 4.0 compatible, but deep in the details it says you have to set the explicit slot to Gen3/PCIE 3.0 which doesn't work for me.

Pros: I upgraded from a very reliable FX-9590 which I ran at overclocked speeds for about 6 years. It was good for games, but it ran super hot supporting a 5Ghz overclock and 32GB of memory upkeep. This processor has no such problems at al. Under heavy load, it barely moves a few degrees above the 30C. It had no issue keeping up 4x32GB RAM, and stuff that used to take minutes now takes seconds. I originally thought I was going to overclock it, but besides some default OC profiles in the Asus motherboard bios, I haven't anything that I do require it yet (gaming/development/deeplearning/data analytics). The next step up to a 24-core, 48 thread Ryzen is almost twice the cost.

Overall Review: Sweet spot on cores, threads, coolness, and price.

Pros: I needed to upgrade my 6 terabyte 5400 rpm drive. This is a great product with excellent speed and excellent storage for the price. I've had WD drives for years and never had to return one even with heavy use.

Cons: I feel a little bait-and-switched. The picture is not what it looks like. I have an open-case, front-facing hdd mount. The graphic shows a simple, full color front applicable for display. The actual drive delivered has the manufacturer information and warnings and a white label with two red stripes. I wish I would have known as then I would have upgraded one of my back-hidden drives and moved the 'prettier' one to the front or else figure out how to put a cover on it.

Overall Review: Best large HDD for the money. You can pay a premium for a few more terabytes or a few more megs of cache, but for the money, this is the best.

Pros: I like Thermaltake power supplies. I downgraded from a non-RGB 1500W Thermaltake PSU which I had for almost 8 years and was noisy as hell to this. This thing is near silent. I'm using it in an open case and it's very cool also. The modular cables are nice versus what I had before which was a rat's nest. The default color scheme works.

Overall Review: I wish it came with a mini-USB to a direct motherboard USB socket connector (not a USB port). I got a Corsair H115i that came with one of these cables, but I haven't been able to find any specifications for recommended cables for this device. I'm going to order another connector from Corsair and hopefully it'll work. The idea that I can't find any recommended cables or more details on the USB connection on the device (or that you even need one in addition) speaks to poor documentation. Second, the module cables it comes with caused some confusion. I have a standard EVGA Nvidia 1080 card and normal connectors. The Asus Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard main power cables had some matchup problems figuring out the main power connector vs the alternate/supplemental power connectors. Asus isn't clear which is required and which are alternate. It all worked out in the end, but I had to count pins and shapes.