Joined on 11/30/01
Solid, stable, and no signs of sagging
Pros: (Owned for around 2 weeks) Around 250W, which adds another pro vs the Geforce It's been stable. I upgraded from a Radeon 5700 XT mostly because the card sags and occasionally the screen would black out. This card has been the opposite. It's been rock solid so far
Cons: It's large. I have a full ATX case and I had some trouble getting it in
Overall Review: It's been solid and stable. I didn't feel a huge performance boost upgrading from a 5700 XT in general, until I streamed, and the 6750 XT handles this better. I bet the extra VRAM and RAM performance helps with this If you can catch the right deal, paying the extra for the 6750 XT over the 6700 XT is worth it, but price compare if you want to get the most bang for the buck. In my case, the extra money didn't subtract from another component, so it was worth it.
Died on me after warranty was over
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.
Using as a horizontal hard drive sliding dock
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
A good companion SSD
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
Retail box! 210 MB/sec write performance on an Orico USB 3.0 enclosure for large files
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.
Into an Acer Nitro 5 (AMD Ryzen) and the system saw it immediately. Very smooth upgrade
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