Pros: Nice price, and speed as well as components and modular design. Pretty quiet considering it is an enterprise platform and 1000RPM. Not too much voice coil chatter and pretty smooth operation. Overall I am pretty pleased and would recommend this drive to my friends.

Cons: I got 5 of these, 4 to use and 1 to abuse, OK not abuse but explore. I did notice that the thermal caddy was virtually useless, if you are a bold person like me and willing to void warranties to see what you are getting, ig you take a look at the ICY Dock cradle the drive sits in there is a thermal foam and some thermal paste however it isn't actually pasted (the plastic covers are still on) This may seem like a small detail but it kinda makes the Heat sink not preform as well and it keeps the drive warm. I don't know what excuse I will be receiving here but this is kind of the whole selling point behind the thermal solution, otherwise I would get the bare drives and mount them in the standard little bay converters or caddys. I don't mean to be hard on WD but if you are going to sell something like that, at least make it functional. I don't expect an RMA or an explanation, as I have stated I voided the warranty by looking, and I don't expect anyone else to do so, I am just one of those risk takers that likes to see just what I am paying for.

Overall Review: I understand that the thermal application shouldn't mount to the PCB, so somewhere the design implementation changed but the entire assembly processes hasn't. I think better attention should be paid on the Engineering department at WD to prevent these issues, not that it is a critical issue but more of one that defeats the design.

Pros: It is much like the former R.A.T. 9 that I used to have. Everything functions quite nicely and fits quite well. Unlike the R.A.T. 9 this isn't wireless, with batteries that would always die.

Cons: I wish the mouse wheel was like the R.A.T. 9 where it would just glide and it was full metallic. I also would like to have had an extra weight, but that isn't a real con just a gripe.

Overall Review: Yes I would recommend this product to you if you play shooters or even RTS games. For the price, this is not a bad deal.

Pros: I like the look, I like the durability. It is strong and it works well.

Cons: The screws are not the best nor are they in easy locations. The main thing about the screws I have an issue with, besides being wood screws is that the philips drive notch is not deep enough. If it were a little deeper then you would not slip when tightening the screws.

Overall Review: Other than that one complaint I have, If it were more modular I think it would be a bigger hit, otherwise it is great shelf to have.

Pros: It cools.... Massively It will take almost any heat you throw at it, with the fan on I have never saturated it to the point where it did nothing and without the fan with any reasonable use even gaming, as a passive heatsink I would not expect any issues. I love the design, I would change maybe 2 things and thats about it.

Cons: the fan... it is a cheap rather poor design, and I know about moving air, it was my job to know how (working with jet engines) I would have went with with a 9 bladed style with almost the same shape of blades and pitch/ geometry these ones with the air gaps between cause vorticies and do cause vibrations that lead to noise/wear also for the rpm speed it is not moving as much air as quietly as a fan of that size could. Secondly the pipe should be facing the other direction, not pointing over the memory, as it is the fan does not allow alot of air over the memory, and the pipes will prevent memory with larger heat spreading solutions on them.

Pros: At the time this board was the best of everything, it was leading edge and it still can hold a candle to some of the newer ones. Plenty of Usb ports, an Esata, firewire support... onboard raid (lower end as all onboard is but works well) 5 SATA ports, IDE and floppy capable and am3 processor capable. Like I said it works well and takes a beating .

Cons: I did have an issue with one not working , it was DOA but then started working then went dead about 4 months later, I RMA'ed it and got another, then 3 years after that I used it for alot of stuff from games to programming and VMware and it died again, this time it was because of the stock thermal paste failing and my southbridge cooked... stared having alot of I/O issues and so I got another, and used my own thermal solutions on it... and am currently useing it.... the southbridge has a rather laughable heatsink on it... and the northbridge.... I wouldnt count on it to play minecraft before the stock gpu there overheats everything.

Overall Review: Other than that as I stated I have had 3 of these, abused them.... and used them. and I am still rather happy with them.

Pros: I have had this tower for more than 4 years, I have taken it through the mountains and desert, it has had a motorcycle fall on it and there are no major marks on it, only one mar on the side but that is perfectly fine. It has alot of space and good airflow, and rugged design. I wish they made more of these and not the cosmos 2's

Cons: There are only three issues that I have with this case, first the screws for the expansion cards are easy to cross thread, as there is no room to work with there a snap bracket would have been better... Secondly due to the short Sata cable for the Esata port and incorrect installation from the factory when I first connected it, the pins came out of the mini board on the front and so it is useless now. Thirdly there are no covers to cover the back if you dont want to use the fans back there and cause a problem with dust.

Overall Review: When it came this one did not have the documentation for the specific one that it was, this on had an onboard fan control that had unlabeled wires on it. Being novice at the time I accidentally plugged the wrong wires into the wrong spot and shorted that fan controller out. But that was my fault so I dont blame anyone. I would have liked to seen it work though :( Thank you CoolerMaster!