Pros: Works flawlessly with my Canon T3i DSLR for both pictures and HD video. Can fire off pictures in highest quality setting very rapidly and records video in full HD in unbelievable quality. For those who try to record video but cannot seem to get the camera to record more than a few seconds, the problem is that the speed of the memory is not fast enough to keep up the recording without interruption at the resolution you are using. You need a fast card like this!

Cons: For those who are inclined to say it might be too expensive. When do you get high quality or high performance for nothing? You want performance, it might cost more.

Pros: On average, the picture quality was fantastic. Channels that broadcast in HD with high quality, multiple channel audio was very impressive. Over a year ago, DirecTV was definately ahead of the curve with the sheer amount of available HD programming but other providers have closed the gap on this. The only problems I regularly had with picture quality was on local channels, espeially our local PBS affiliate in the Philadelphia region. Their PBS uplink for Philly was pretty bad. Other than that, picture quality was normally excellent on most other channels.

Cons: Despite the mixed info on here, DirecTv forces you into a lease on ALL equipment. Info from Newegg is incorrect, DirecTv not only forces you to "purchase" the receiver to subsidize their equipment costs, their current Terms Of Service states that despite this you are leasing the equipment. The Washingston State attorney general office has recently filed a lawsuit against DirecTv for their deceptive practices. I was a subscriber for 10+ years and finally decided to upgrade to HD. I paid full price for this HD DVR whereas new subscribers could get it for 1/3 the cost or less. As soon as I upgraded to HD, started having lots of problems with signal drop out during even light rain or other weather conditions that I never had with the older SD receivers. I'd call for support and told to reset the DVR - which takes 10+ minutes each time and always was told by the rep that the signal levels I was reading back to them was perfect. But I continued to have problems despite many support calls.

Overall Review: cons cont... - The DVR would hang regularly and despite mulitple requests with their support, they assured me each time the DVR hardware passed all remote diagnostics and the hardware was fine. I finally decided to give up when a competitor offer Fiber based service in my neighborhood. I figured I would give the HD DVR to a relative after discontinuing my serivce since they were interested. However, on calling DirecTv, they said I would be liable for nearly $500 if I did not return the unit since it was leased - despite the fact that I "purchased" it for over $300 originally. Then to further add insult to injury, I was informed that I still had nearly four months on my minimum 2 year commitment, because each time you change any services on your account, they are locking you into another 2 year minimum commitment. My last change was to update my programming subscription to add a pay channel and this extends your service commitment. DirecTv abuses its customers and they just dont care.

Pros: Excellent consistent performance for mechanical drive.

Cons: Is slightly audible in a quiet room, but not dramatically more than the fans in an attached PC power supply, CPU and case.

Overall Review: Replacing multiple ST2000NM0033 drives that have been in service for seven years (yes, since 2013 when this is written). While migrating the data off the old drives, it was impressive that this new model exhibited completely consistent performance while writing Terabytes of data sustained. Tests with some other drives showed that even other recent model drives could not always read at a sustained speed to keep this drive writing data as fast as it could. When testing from SSD based sources, using real data, not any artificial programmatic benchmarks, it was able to sustain 200-220MB/s writes. I exercised these over several days before entrusting them to the large amount of data that I needed to migrate over and the write performance over all those test was remarkably consistent time after time. And even after two weeks straight of 24x7 operation now, drives are running at a pretty modest 30-32 degrees C. Read performance is just as good, but expected that for this type of drive. The recent price drops on this series of drives have placed it in an excellent price/capacity/performance position as of this writing. I use lots of Seagate drives and have always had great results with any of their enterprise class drives (to simplify, just stick with any of the models with "NM" in the model number). Yes, there is a bit of a price premium over some of the value live drives, but my data is worth a lot more to me and my business than trying to save a few bucks.

Pros: I used it for backing up system images and transferring other large files, such as raw video files before transcoding. Is pretty speedy when compared to the write speed of most USB flash drives. Have had it and used it heavily for moving some stuff around for over a month with no problems. No issues at all with using it on multiple Windows 10 machines as some recent reviews seem to try and claim.

Cons: Would prefer if the included cable was a little longer.

Overall Review: Note that if you want a spare or longer cable, the end that connects to this drive is a USB 3.0 Micro B style connector.

Pros: Nice sturdy metal frame, but has plenty of ventilation for good air flow for cooling. Plus, its metal, not plastic which will also be thermally conductive helping to keep the drive cool. Plenty of room to use with any type of 2.5" DATA device. So it will work with SSD or HDD devices. A great way to use newer drives in some legacy equipment. I have used several of them for replacing HDDs in a hot swap cage and they fit the job perfectly.

Cons: None. I have several in use and they've been rock solid.

Overall Review: Don't get the comments about the connector seeming flimsy... Maybe its possible they improved it, but it seems extremely solid to me. These are the same normal tiny little SATA connectors on every device. Solid enough to do what they should be doing. But I guess if you are ham-handed enough, you could easily crack them. But that's easy to solve... pay attention to what you are doing!

Pros: I have used this on a few types of KVMs. First with a no-name cheap consumer 4 port KVM at home that only has support for classic PS/2 style keyboard and mouse connectors. And second on large enterpise/commercial grade TrippLite KVMs at work that support mixed types but where re-using existing PS/2 style cabling that was in place. It has worked equally well in both places.

Cons: Nothing, it just works and that's all it needs to do.