Pros: * Excellent performance * Runs quiet * Retail Box (mostly protection and screws) * No problem running in the Orico enclosure * Blue drive will have a higher performance than a green drive

Cons: It's a WD Blue, and some may prefer a Red for NAS or archive

Overall Review: Money is tight for me, so I got this on sale over something like a WD Red. It's not a bad compromise. Used a 128k allocation unit size since this will be a media drive. For a USB 3.0 magnetic hard drive, 210 MB/sec for write is fantastic. I'll see if it goes down once the drive starts getting filled, but I'm pretty happy with the performance.The 2 TB WD Green it replaced was getting around 110 MB/sec (the WD Green is an older drive and probably doesn't have the 128k allocation unit size to be fair). 110 MB/sec is more than usable, so mostly noting the difference With 8 TB of storage with great performance, I can easily start making disc images of some of these old PC games, throw some storage discs out, and get organized. This drive would probably work well for older games. 660 GB backed up in an hour. Nice Update: now that it's 50% full, the speed is down to 170 MB/sec, still really good performance.

Pros: 3 TB! Woo. It worked really well for games

Cons: It died on me after the warranty was over. I even had extended warranty, but it died right after it.

Pros: Hard drive toasters are neat, except that the hard drives plug in where they could possibly wiggle at the connector. This enclosure has enough space to slide in a hard drive, then slide forwards to make the connection

Cons: Slight con: if you want a permanent install, you need to use foam (included with the drive). The foam will make it a little harder to swap drives in and out. Then again, you can probably get foam at the local department store The connector also feels a little tight, which might not be a bad thing

Overall Review: So far, it's working as a horizontal hard drive toaster... or sliding dock. I'm not swapping hard drives often, and if you do, you might want something more sturdy

Pros: Great option. A SATA SSD is a good compromise between a magnetic drive and NVMe.

Cons: SATA speeds

Overall Review: My laptop has a SATA drive bay, and it worked after I booted. I have NVMe ports, but the SATA SSD will help me free up the storage space from the M.2 drives. Performance has been very good. There are so many situations where a SATA SSD works great, especially when it comes to larger files * Many Games, especially older ones * Music * Photos * Videos

Overall Review: Went right into the laptop. The packaging is just a RAM holder with a sticker, but on the other hand, was very easy to open. This is as OEM as you can get. I guess I wasn't paying for the fancy packaging, but then again, I'm fine with that

Overall Review: Title says it all