Joined on 05/28/03
Great Unit when you get one that works !

Pros: Great hold of AC power when there is an outage and keeps my SONY tv DirecTv satellite etc working. When on Generator power the unit can clean up the Sine wave for 60Hz and does fine. A Factory NEW unit was Sent to me after the Brand NEW unit was defective right out of the box. NEW unit from factory works PERFECTLY !!!
Cons: I had the dreaded whine from the unit brand new out of the box. I plugged it into a stable 115v 60hz pure AC source and it was whining so loud that you could hear it across the room. After setting up a tech call from APC They agreed that the internal low voltage transformer for the LED display was whining and there was a problem with the AC to DC switching transformer. I did run the AC line out on an Oscilloscope and it was NOT clean power nor was it voltage corrected. I took screen shots and sent it to APC. They were VERY HELPFUL and said it was defective right out of the factory. They agreed that the test report taped to the unit was definitely not correct. A RMA was setup to Cross Ship a new one as the Old (NewEgg ordered item) was sent back. The problem was taken care of FULLY by APC and I am happy
Overall Review: APC needs to step up their QC on their products. I have been buying for 25 years trusting the APC brand, this was the worst set of battery backups I have purchased from them
Two Words -- WONT WORK

Pros: Well it looks convincing but no way DOES NOT WORK on Apple® iPad® Mini/ipad® 4 / ipad® with Retina display
Cons: The 4 conductors on the jack dont conduct DATA. This is really a 3 conductor wire with a 4 pin plug. NO DATA transmitted through the extension. I tested this unit with SQUARE and PayPal credit card readers NO GO. I then used an Apple headphone with volume no volume control will pass through. So I am an engineer I did a continuity test guess what 3 wire not 4 wire in the extender. Also I went a looked at Apples spec on the headphone jack this extension is not wired as per Apple spec at all. So guess what this unit IS NOT Compatible With Apple® iPad® Mini/ipad® 4 / ipad® with Retina display. I did a data test via a Digital Data tester no data is passing through. This WONT WORK !
Great drive lasts forever

Pros: I have probably purchased well over 40 of these drives in the past, and they have never yet failed on me. In fact, the computers would die before their drive did. In some cases, the western digital SSD drive has actually gone from one case into another one and continues to live on. Remember, these drives are for day-to-day operations. Theyre not super fast. They are just normal fast and excellent for office, workstations home offices, and basic gaming.
Overall Review: These are wonderful drives for day-to-day stuff. If you just need to upgrade some thing from older mechanical drives to this one, it works perfectly to.
This was part of an excellent solution

Pros: I needed a large external USB 3.0 drive and the best solution was to buy one of these M.2 drives and put it in an external USB 3.0 case. I tend to like Orico external cases, and found one put this drive in it, and it works perfectly as a go to external drive. It really is a super fast drive and non-demanding is what I want and it works just fine.
Overall Review: This really is a nice well constructed and fairly decent drive for day-to-day stuff. Doesnt need to be super fast. Dont really need to push it any faster than it is. It works just fine just the way it is.
200 Samsung Drives later STILL THE BEST and still running

Pros: SPEED Reliability function
Overall Review: These drives have been installed by me for over 3 years. In whatever I installed them in they work. I tend only to install in Dell HP ASUS & Acer systems. A simple note is that if your machines are OVER 7 years old this is not the drive for your system (compatibility and SATA III full compatibility). If your system was not designed for Windows 7 or 8 This is not 3 the drive for you. First thing to do BEFORE you install this drive in your system DO THE BIOS update - DO THE FIRMWARE update. Load the newest version of Windows. If you do CLONE the drive from old to new you MAY have problems, with the Samsung EVO series I have learned that they do better with a NEW Windows 10 Load. If you DO NOT want dilemma with a SSD drive get a Samsung EVO !!!
Great for a HP laptop

Overall Review: Had a customer come in and wanted to switch out from a legacy HD D Drive And this was a plug and play solution for the M2 slot was simple to install and then install Microsoft windows 10 on the system worked perfectly
Excellent
These little external drives cases are absolutely wonderful I now have the capacity to take my old HDD drives and we use them for external backup devices. The units are fast enough for back ups and work just fine
Terrific Products !!!!!! I have a few
I have ORICO's external 2.5 HDD enclosures and last year for the Holidays I gave everyone a 500 GB SSD inside one of their containers. This year I had a spare NVM SSD and wanted to use it as an external quick backup. This thing is FAST USB 3.0 and solidly built. Great heat sink to keep NVM SSD cool. USB 3.0 has good data throughput for data backup. Overall a great company
The Clear SSD box
This was great in my shop and at home. Now I can see the drives inside the box and works. The USB 3.0 speeds are fine for what I am doing and this is just such a nice well made product