Pros: Decently quick. I formatted the drive ext4, then ran the ubuntu 14.04 benchmarking on it. 10 MB sample size 100 samples. Average read 142.7 MB/s. Average write 72.8 MB/s. Average access time 15.41ms. I wouldn’t want to run my OS off it, but plenty fast for media and backup storage. Nice long power and usb cables Seems to run fairly quiet

Cons: The light is blue, and very bright, bad for a bedroom.

Overall Review: While I tested this drive with my PC, I intend to actually use it with my xbox one. It’s been serving well in that role for several weeks now, and I’m very happy with the drive.

Pros: Inexpensive Passive cooling

Cons: Throughput isn’t as good as unmanaged netgear switch (see other thoughts) Settings have spontaneously flipped multiple times I received v1 of the hardware, which hasn’t seen a firmware update since 2013 VLAN settings page is a bit odd (see other thoughts) Can’t tag management traffic with a vlan No ssh, no https, no console port, http only Won’t take passwords longer than 16 characters, invisibly barfs (discovered via lastpass) LAG didn’t work

Overall Review: Looks good, webui is fairly easy to navigate except for the VLAN page. The vlan page should note that it’s talking about egress traffic on each port, and it’s not immediately obvious how to edit vlan’s you already put into place. Once you wrap your head around it, it’s ok though Bad news: iperf3 testing via this switch maxes out for me around 650 mbps. This switch replaced a unmanaged netgear switch that would max out at ~950 mbps. I don’t need that extra 300 mbps, but I find it very unsettling that it can’t do full line speed. The built in cable testing shows that these cables are good, and it was the same cables/pc’s used when testing the netgear switch I don’t like that there is no ssh/https/console port, http only is a deal breaker in most companies these days and I’d not deploy it anywhere but my house because of this PVID setting has flipped multiple times on my main lan ports, taking down my desktop pc’s, annoying at home, a deal breaking in a business This is the first tp-link product that I”ve tried and been unhappy with. I will be replacing this switch with my old netgear switch, or a managed switch from a different vendor

Pros: I was able to fully max out PCIE3 speeds Worked on multiple linux OS's Maintains speeds (what limited speeds I can hit)

Cons: Absolutely massive heat sync prevented me from installing it in my only PCIE5 board. Not recognized in an external M2 Docking station (not sure why, other SSD's work fine)

Overall Review: So, I have no reason to think that this SSD won't hit the massive speeds it claims, but the heat sync is so ridiculously large that it wouldn't fit in anything but a PCIE 3 board. If you order this, look at the pictures for the height of that heat sync, and consider if you should just get the regular version. The heat sync doesn't look easily removable. On my PCIE 3 board, I actually had to move my graphics card to get it to fit. It's huge!

Pros: Looks nice Good featureset for the price Light

Cons: My unit appears to get interference no matter the inputs when I have two or more inputs active, and it causes the monitor to reboot every 30 seconds or so.

Overall Review: Spend a bit more for something nicer, wish I had. My unit was to be used on a KVM, with two sources, and when I have two sources active, the display signal seems to get interrupted, or monitor reboots itself (haven't figured out which yet), every 30 seconds or so. Tried multiple cables, multiple PC's, problem persists. I have to manually disconnect my sources, and only connect the one I intend to use, and I expect it to have a relatively short life because of this.

Pros: Installs easyMinimal Extra packagingRGB lights are excellentRuns at advertised speed

Cons: Not a con for the product, but in my installation I had to do some bios updates to get XMP to work correctly.

Overall Review: I was previously running a single stick of 2400mhz 16gb ram. Upgrading to this unfortunately wasnt super simple because I was a few (22) bios updates behind on my motherboard. After I downloaded them all to a USB stick then walked through the upgrade process (thankfully only had to actually apply like 4) I was able to gete these running at the full 3200 mhz. Be warned that as with any high speed ram, you may have to modify your memory settings to take advantage of it. I had to turn on XMP in my board, but then it auto chose the correct voltages, timing, and speed.Looks absolutely phenomenal, I love that you can change the colors, but I actually have a blacked out case, so after experimenting, I just put it back on the default, and itll be a nice surprise the next time I open my case up. Despite having the RGB strip on the top, these werent actually as tall as I expected, I had no issues with fit.Performance I definitely notice a difference in day to day usage of memory intensive operations. I ran some benchmarks and Im getting between 20 GB/s and 21 GB/s in mixed read/write regardless of single or multi core. My old memory was clocked in at 11 GB/s, so there has been a definite improvement.All in all, I would highly recommend, and Im considering buying another 2X8GB kit to finish off my motherboard now.

Pros: Factory mount is nice and secure The spotlight is a very nice additon, but I chose not to use it as I didn't want the extra battery drain. The PIR motion activation seems to activate when you'd expect it to. Customer service is highly available, and effective.

Cons: The mobile app is horrible. It effectively forces you to sign up for a subscription, even though the camera comes with a free 3 month trial. I had to engage their support for a refund. Mobile app would give me a thumbnail of a notification, then when I selected it, it would take 3-5 minutes to load, then it would take me to the live stream, not the notification. Events took a further 5+ minutes to show up on the timeline. For a security camera, having to wait 10 minutes to see what just happens is completely inexcusable. I ran through the camera setup about half a dozen times before the app would find the camera. I could see the camera on my wifi (and ping it), but the app would just sit there and hang. I have a robust home network, and saw no connectivity issues with any of my other IOT devices (cameras included). Battery life: Bad, just Bad. I used the camera for two days, and estimate in my relatively low traffic area that I'd get about 29 days of usage out of a charge. That's much lower than competitors. No Magnetic mount option, most competitors offer this. Sharing the camera with my spouse was clunky, and took three attempts before the correct options showed up for her. Geo-fencing was so slow and inaccurate to basically be useless.

Overall Review: Decent hardware let down by extremely poor software. For backstory, I work in IT, have an extensive networking background, and have used multiple NVR's at work, along with a few different product lines of home camera solutions. This was by far the worst home solution I've used.