Pros: They used some quality name brand components instead of generic ones in the construction. The motherboard is ASRock brand. The keyboard and mouse were Logitech, RAM was Crucial, Hard Drive was Toshiba and SSD was SanDisk. Win-10 was not filled with bloatware like so many other PCs. An odd plus for me. The motherboard had PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse. I got to use an old keyboard that I liked a lot because of that and freed up a USB port as well. I'm happy with purchase

Cons: The motherboard had a defective PCIE slot but I worked around that. It has a DVI port for video, that's it. No VGA or HDMI. I had to buy a separate video card to handle my monitor. It was cheap but a hassle because it wasn't clear in the specs on Newegg what the port was. Newegg specs said it was a GPU/VGA type Intel HD Graphics 530. I saw VGA and thought that was the port type.

Pros: For the very short time it worked I liked it.

Cons: Burnt maybe 10 Data-DVD's then it started making grinding and buzzing sounds. A write would take way too long (hour+ for 600 MB) and it wouldn't read the data to verify it. It's rightful place is in a landfill somewhere.

Overall Review: This purchase was to replace another Samsung external DVD burner. At least it lasted a year before it died. I'm twice burned on Samsung. It's time to try someone else.

Pros: cheap

Cons: My Win-8 machine clocks most USB drives at 15MB/sec or so. That's with USB 2.0 This 3.0 drive rarely hits 2 MB/sec and spends most time well below 1 MB. It spent quite a bit of time writing at under 100 KB/sec.

Overall Review: Buy something else.