Pros: -6Gbps, reliable connection to my new Mushkin Chronos 240, lets that drive scream at full speed.

Cons: -I'm dumb for getting a 10" cable, i overestimated its length.

Overall Review: Barely long enough to go from my mobo to the furthest hard-drive bay in my mid-tower. Forget any notions of routing, it's nearly taut as is just plugged in.

Pros: Huge Capacity Super quiet, mostly. Its inaudible doing huge transfers next to how loud by 640 gig WD Black drive is at near-idle. Cool running, as doing a 400GB backup the drive was still below skin temperature.

Cons: Shipping: External box arrived gently handled. Interior padded with crumpled paper on one side only. Second box inside the first loosely contained the bare drive wrapped in a mostly popped layer of bubble wrap. Upon unwrapping, the drive has 3 dents along the thin sheet-metal cover plate. Don't know how this will affect anything, drive seems to function ok for now, if a bit slower than I was led to believe. Speed: Drive can hardly sustain 80MB/s transfers, GPT w./ 4k blocks. I'll try again later using my SSD as the transfer source to see if it can write any quicker. Maybe I should change my block size?

Overall Review: Needs GPT formatting. Got it and wasn't DOA, which means that if it lasts a week or two, chances are I got a good drive. Its pretty pathetic seeing these drives' review history, but I wanted the best combo of price, speed, and noise. The blacks and RE4's, while quick, sound like chainsaws. Newegg's hard drive shipping is an embarassment. I paid a few dollars over competitor price to shop newegg because I like the company better but this is flagrant mis-packaging of a fragile product. Noise & Cooling setup: Silverstone RV03 with all drives behind the MB. NH-D14. All stock fans on low & undervolted to 7V. SSD Primary, WD Black for bulk programs, WD Red for big storage. Galaxy 660ti 3GB, PII 965 @ 4.0ghz.

Pros: -Silent -Good price -Never feel any warm air coming from it. -Has enough oomph to power an i9-10850k and RTX 3090 with 3 drives and 13 fans without any power dips under load.

Cons: -None

Overall Review: I would recommend this PSU. I have not yet simultaneously ran power virus software on both CPU and GPU simultaneously to check if 850W is enough for both the RTX 3090 and i9-10850K but its plenty for realistic gaming workload.

Pros: Fast. Many times quicker than my WD Black former system drive for boot, program install, program loading, updates, everything.

Cons: After owning about a year, it started to develop a fault where it would randomly de-mount itself from the BIOS. This causes frequent system hangs and BSOD's and refusals to boot. Only way to get the BIOS to re-recognize the drive is an at-the-wall power disconnect for the whole system for a few minutes. Then the drive works again like magic for a few days... But this repeats a couple times a week.

Overall Review: Tried updating firmware, different Sata cable, different sata port, different MOBO.

Pros: Feeds the hungriest of systems while running pretty cool. Nearly silent, can't hear it over the components you'd have to run in order to take advantage of all the wattage. Fully modular, so you only need to plug in what what you want to use. Optional filter if your case doesnt include any is a nice touch.

Cons: Poor compatibility with the Raven RV-03 case when fully loaded with 3x HD7950 GPU's. It *fits* but fitting all the cables into the cutout behind the psu nearly takes a crowbar to get the panel back on. This is mostly disappointing because the components are from the same company and come up on each other's 'recommended equipment' pages on the main website. The cable capacitors, while good for component health, are awful for routing, since each cable has 2 Caps that are each about twice the size of a pen by an inch long.

Overall Review: Barely puffs out any warm air when I have 3 gpu's fully loaded down. Nice.

Pros: Solid performer in benchmarks, games.

Cons: Impossible to 3-way Crossfire. The cards with 'blocked' intakes both experience thermal runaway ala Chernobyl, get to 100% fans, and keep climbing past 85C. I quit the application at that point but the temp graph showed no sign of leveling off. Very poor cooler design, there is no easy path for the air to exit besides some small gaps in the sides. Only half of one fan can exhaust out the back, the middle of the fins has the fans fight each other, and there is no end-out exhaust either. Stacked in triple crossfire, these guys /idled/ at 65C while room ambient was 28C, and the CPU was at 32C. Loud at load. HOT. All the time.

Overall Review: Didnt buy at the egg unfortunately, or else I wouldnt be going through the support nightmare of a certain feline reseller suddenly pulling RMA ability overnight. Oh, and the manufacturer has a nonfunctional support website. System: Asus Crosshair 990fx Formula-Z FX-8350 w./ Noctua NH-D14 2x8GB G.Skill Ares 1866 3x THIS GPU Silverstone Raven RV-03 Full Tower Case Silverstone Strider Gold E 1200W 80+ Gold 2x 180mm fans pointed right at the GPU's.