Pros: 2TB for not much, the first one of these I bought worked perfectly, the second one...

Cons: When first formatted a week ago only 1TB or it's 2TB would recognize. After a few reboots and a fair amount of time just ignoring the problem, I went back into disk management and saw the other TB and was able to extend. I saw no documentation about this problem. Quirkiness is cute in people but I want my drives to do what they do and nothing more interesting.

Overall Review: I saw a review a moment ago about someone who lost all there files that they trusted to this drive. Ok so, it's lame that not every drive is tested so well that they can eliminate any possibility of corruption, but that's the world as it is and these drives are cheap because nobody would pay extra for the extra testing until after losing data. But more importantly, the real lesson is this, redundancy! In the age of dropbox and gdrive and cheap cheap cheap drives where is the excuse to have a file you care about even a little on just one drive? There isn't one, backup, copy, sync, and if you don't, blame yourself and learn from your mistake. I love novice users, building applications for you is my life's work, but there's no getting around this one, backup, back it up again, or assume you'll lose it.

Pros: speedy workhorse, just what i expected, built a very stable system with this

Cons: The installation of this thing turned into an epic battle. The little snap-in on the fan just wouldn't snap in. I was bending the mb, placing both thumbs on one snap and squeezing with all my might. Eventually I had to get a small comb and brace it against the snap, pinching down on the edge of the fan casing with one hand and the comb on the snap... it took me hours and I was nearly in tears.

Overall Review: I've installed intel processor plenty of times, never had trouble. How this could have not brought the intel QA department to rioting is beyond me. I read the reviews, I figured folks describing this problem didn't know what they were doing, silly me.