Pros: Quiet cooler that preforms well. Replaced the stock fan that came with my FX-8350 that was noise and couldn't over clock much with. Running now at 4.5ghz with 18-20c at idle and 48-50c when running Prime95 with pump set to max and fan on auto.

Cons: Not really a con but you will need a case that can mount 140mm fans. Fan mounting screws need to be bit longer and should include extra mounting screws to mount a second fan in a push/pull configuration.

Pros: Cheep fast drive. Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 198.868 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 198.197 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1.589 MB/s [ 387.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1.615 MB/s [ 394.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.645 MB/s [ 401.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.839 MB/s [ 204.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.655 MB/s [ 159.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.659 MB/s [ 160.9 IOPS]

Cons: Got 2 of these 3TB drives 6 months ago and 1 is starting to fail with a seek error rate problem. The bad drive lightly clicks most of the time and is used only for data storage or install programs, driver install packages and such.

Overall Review: Toshiba's RMA process not the best out there.

Pros: Nice clear case.

Cons: Guess I got a bad one as I get really, really slow transfer rates. CrystalDisk Mark speeds for this case come no where near the numbers that ORICO's USB 3.0 produce (Which is a great product). I got this case because I have a laptop that has a 3.1 port that I could use. i thought that the slow read/write speed might be due to running off a USB 3.0 port so I got a USB 3.1 cable and the testing results were even slower using a 3.1 port. 3.1 case CrystalMark Speeds 3.0 Case 68.58 16.36 89.08 84.03 .905 .238 .552 .215 .937 .246 88.92 77.39 .358 .153 .388 .190 Numbers are slow, but hey it's a 10 year old 5400 Sata 300 drive.

Pros: I can check out drives or transfer files for others without opening my case to connecting them. Makes it easy to move friends pictures, music or documents to a new computer. Also you can do do drive testing to see is a drive is failing. Fast CrystalMark transfer rates that are within a few numbers of the drives numbers when connected to a USB 3 port vs connected to the motherboard SATA ports.

Cons: Cables could be a bit longer for the power adapter.

Overall Review: If you work with other peoples 3.5in or 2.5in Sata drives this is a great tool to have.

Pros: The clear case makes it easy to tell what drive you are using without plugging it in. I got several of these to put in old laptop drives that were replaced by SSD's. Fast transfer rates using USB 3 ports and no system slow down. Also works well in a USB 2 port, just slower.

Cons: None

Overall Review: If you have a 2.5in drive that you don't know what to do with, this is what you need. Now a have portable drives to back up all my computers without placing all the backups on a single drive.

Pros: Worked great when they worked. Two boards both lasting about 90 days each.

Cons: I've used Gigabyte products going all the way back to the AMD K-6 days and never had a problem. However this model board has failed twice with each board lasting just over 3 months. The first board refusing to power on with beep codes pointing to memory problems. The memory was check on a second board, different brand, and found ok, so reinstalled everything to that board. The first board was RMA'd and Gigabyte sent a replacement. Total RMA time was just over 3 1/2 weeks. Not having a cpu or memory to install on it, I waited a bit before getting a second cpu and memory to setup another system. Now the second board again ran just over 3 months before failing. Again it won't post at power on, so I pulled all the components off the Gigabyte and installed them on a borrowed friends board and there has no problems at all.

Overall Review: Don't know just what is going on with this board but I'm not going to waste time and money doing a RMA again. I still recommend the Gigabyre products to friends but just not this board.