Pros: Fast, Quiet, Smooth, COMPATIBLE (unlike SOME SSD's with bootcamp.) Unlike the previous poster this drive is just about as loud as my previous 320gb 7200rpm hitachi that came with my 15.4 LED MBP (machine was BTO) So while it may be louder than 5400 rpm drives, it's about as loud as other 7200 rpms. Now I can set aside 100gb for bootcamp and still have plenty of room for iphoto/aperture/final cut pro

Cons: Reliability is still too new to tell.

Overall Review: Buy one, wait for SSD's to come down further

Pros: Well built great VRMs great ethernet and wifi fast boot 4 M2 slots BUT.... See below

Cons: 2 of the 3 M2 sockets that connect to the CPU directly, 2 share bandwidth with the PCIE x16 4.0 slot so it knocks it down to x8 when using the other M2 slots. TLDR If you're going to use this motherboard with Rocket Lake and plan on using the CPU M2 slots, you're limited to only using 2 of the M2 slots unless you plan on halving the bandwidth to your GPU.

Overall Review: Save money and step down to Aorus elite that will let you use all 3 M2 sockets without compromising GPU bandwidth

Pros: -FIVE NVME slots, perfect for gaming or content creation -Asrock is the only X870E motherboard maker smart enough to design a motherboard that doesn't steal bandwidth from main PCIe slot when populating the NVME slots -awesome build quality that rivals $500+ motherboards -Simple, but effective BIOS -flashback design worked perfectly allowing my 9800X3D to boot at first POST -No issues with G.skill 64gb DDR5 6000 RAM -Able to control RBG color and intensity from BIOS so don't need to install windows program

Cons: -Asrock needs to triple production, this board required me to up at 1 AM to score one

Overall Review: This review for ASRock review rebate program, but I was not sponsored so I paid my own cold hard cash to buy this awesome motherboard. I usually buy Gigabyte/Asus, but they messed up all their X870e lane sharing assignments. Asrock will be now at the top of my list with future purchases!

Pros: Quiet, very cool running card, 35c in my HAF 922 when surfing, only goes to 55c when running

Cons: Hard lockups/freezes with my Gigabyte X58-UD5 board after 10 days of use. Would first lock-up in games like SC2/WoW/ME2. Would then proceed to lockup Win7 during bootup! RMA'd motherboard thinking it was the issue, but dropped board in my i5 system and it also caused that computer to lock up. Luckily I was still in Newegg's 30day exchange window. 2nd card seems to be working great so far (crosses-fingers). Wish I got the MSI card instead...

Overall Review: Is this a bad batch of cards? or worse a design flaw?

Pros: Quiet - even for a 7200RPM drive, as good as Crapple's stock 5400rpm drive in my 2010 MBP 15 Fast - Almost as quick as my Intel 160gb G2 on bootup No TRIM issues with OSX

Cons: Battery life dropped by about 30 minutes Concerns about reliability - had 2 500gb 7200 Momentus die on me

Overall Review: Best performance, storage capacity for the price in a notebook drive

Pros: QUIET lives up to it's name. I was having problems with instability with my Conroe+Asus P5b dlx+ATI X1900xt with my Antec Trupower 480watt. Upraded to this PS now ROCK SOLID.

Cons: Was getting occasionally loud with heavy load, found out my Antec P180 Vent filters were clogged lol. Cleaned out, now flow much better.