Pros: This case feels very well made! I have used computer cases from many manufacturers over the years and rarely encountered such a quality feeling product, it is heavy, the metal feels solid, everything feels well built. We’ll see how it holds up over time, but I’m very impressed with the craftsmanship overall. This case has just about the most amount of expansion room you could ever imagine, the hard drive capacity is not at all overstated, there are additional mounts for the drives that are not easy to see in the product photos (on the bottom of the case). If you need lots of hard drives and room to grow, this is the case for you! The RGB is a really nice touch, and this is my first computer case that comes with a remote control to control the RGB. The RGB has a lot of options, you can set static colors or randomly changing colors (with adjustable speed). I went with random color changes for now, it is pretty cool. Sometimes the little things make a build convenient - this board had all the correct standoffs in place for a standard ATX board. I didn’t have to move anything, there were no extra standoffs installed that were at risk of shorting out the board - everything was pretty much perfect for a typical build out of the box. This case can hold a larger EE-ATX board, but I just used an ATX board for my build. The included cable management stuff worked great for my simple build, and it was very easy to make nice cable management. There are a generous amount of holes to route your cables however you need them. There’s also a good amount of space on the back side behind the motherboard to tuck your excess cables. I’ve had other cases in the past where that area was cramped and the panel was hard to get on after finishing my build - not so with this case. My build only has a GTX 1650 Super inside, but the case appears to be plenty large for larger form factor graphics cards (like the 1080TI for example). This is an issue I’ve run into with cases in the past, so it’s nice to know even though I did not need the space for this build, it is there if I need it in the future. This definitely is not the only way in which I’m not utilizing this case to its full potential - there’s lots of potential here.

Cons: If you’re buying this case, you probably know it’s large, but the size can definitely be a disadvantage. I wouldn’t want this thing on my desk, but since I have ample floor space next to my desk for towers, the size is no problem for me. Related to the size, my modular power supply cables were a little short for the size of this thing. For example, I routed SATA connectors on the back side of the case (behind the motherboard) up to the top for my optical drive. Only 2 SATA connectors made it back into the case, the remaining one was stranded behind the cable management hole due to the cable being too short for such a large chassis. I may have been able to route the cable differently (though less cleanly) to negate this, but since I didn’t need the extra SATA connector it was OK, but something to keep in mind. The included instructions were impressive looking when opening them, but I found them to be somewhat incomplete, even as an experienced PC builder. I don’t need the basic steps documented, but the documentation included for which screws were meant for what was incomplete, and the screw bags weren’t labeled. The motherboard screws for example seemed to be smaller than standard ones I’ve used in every other build, so I first tried a different (too large) screw and stripped one of the standoffs. A bit of careful trial and error was also needed to figure out which screws to use to attach the feet to the bottom of the case. Ikea has this down, but Raijintek could use some improvement on their documentation especially since they seem to be using different screws than I’m used to.

Overall Review: Overall I am really pleased with this case, I expect it to last a long time, and maybe in years to come I will rebuild a different build inside the same case and keep using it. I think the case will probably outlive the components, and this is somewhat rare in my book. The price is a bit high, but I would definitely come back and buy this again for a future build if I needed the space. A few things I want to note as well for anyone looking at this item based on the current pictures, I do think they may be slightly misleading. The pictures showing the inside of the computer are pictured with the side panel removed, this case does not have a transparent side panel or any kind of window to the inside. I actually do find the absence of this a bit unusual for something that seems so clearly designed to be a gaming case. Also, my case only came with the rear chassis fan. The pictures do clearly show a lot of non-included hardware, but it’s noteworthy that the pictured two fans on the top are part of a (non-included) liquid cooling setup. The chassis comes only with the pictured rear fan. Also, my rear fan was not RGB like the pictures suggest it is, it was just a standard PWM fan. I didn’t do liquid cooling in my setup, air cooling was more than adequate for the components in the build I had planned, but I will hold on to the included liquid cooling brackets and who knows what the future holds. :)

Pros: I used this wireless radio in bridge mode to connect two wireless networks together and create a single network. It made significantly better use of the signal than any other wireless bridge solution I have ever employed. The connection through the bridge was orders of magnitude faster, lower latency, and more reliable than any other bridge I’ve ever used on this link. The link suffers from a lot of interference, and the bridge did a great job filtering that out and functioning perfectly.

Cons: After 2 months of use (indoors, I might add), this outdoor wireless radio failed. One day, I noticed that the bridge link was down, and I took a look at the equipment. I found that the radio was turning on and off, and the unit was emitting very bad sounding electrical noises. The unit was also uncomfortably hot. I immediately unplugged the radio, and it is no longer of use to me as it is now failed. I can’t get it to stay on for more than a few minutes before it freaks out and overheats and starts shutting off again.

Overall Review: I was ready to go out and buy many more of these, but now I will steer clear of them because I no longer trust that they are built to last.

Pros: This drive is very lightweight and sleek, taking up less physical space than 2 or 3 flash drives, and packing internal SSD levels of performance and capacity into something very portable. It will easily fit into your pocket, purse, or briefcase and will readily replace a handful of flash drives. The speed claims made on the product listing are not nonsense and are actually pretty close to real world performance. I ran several disk benchmarks, and easily achieved read speeds exceeding 900MB/s for sustained periods of time. Write speeds were also very good and actually improved as I threw larger test file sizes at it, varying between about 460MB/s with 10MB test chunks to 720MB/s with 1000MB test chunks. I wrote over 1TB of data to this drive benchmarking it, and it didnt skip a beat. I am particularly impressed with my last test where I wrote 1000MB files 1000 times (basically a terabyte of constant writes) and the drive performed pretty consistently. Im used to testing cheaper SSDs where the performance falls off a cliff once you fill up the cache, but this drive continued to perform no matter how much data I threw at it. Given that its a 2TB drive, Im sure it doesnt have a 1TB cache, so this must be some pretty performant flash memory. Additionally, the drive never even seemed to get warm while I was bombarding it with all this test data. The performance of this drive makes it feel like a desktop grade SSD, and yet it is packed into an incredibly small and portable package. There feels like there is no downside here and no sacrifice was made to make it so small and portable.

Cons: If you have older computers which lack USB-C ports, you will need a USB-A to USB-C adapter to connect the drive. USB-C is the future, so equipping this drive with USB-C is truly the right move to future proof it, but a lot of folks dont have USB-C yet on their computers.

Overall Review: A few pictures are attached including my benchmark results and some size comparisons next to a regular flash drive as well as a normal SATA SSD that you would install inside a computer. This gives you some idea the size and portability of the drive for your use case. I dont think it is any less convenient to carry around than a flash drive, aside from having to carry the USB-C cable too. If you already have USB-C to USB-C cables in your bag (such as for charging phones and tablets) you wouldnt need to carry an extra cable with you.

Pros: I installed this RAM upgrade in a gaming PC that was built in 2019, this upgrade doubled the memory in the system from 32GB to 64GB total. This memory was the faster memory in the system, as my other memory was DDR4 2400MHz, however I encountered no issues with compatibility. Additionally, the memory in the system that I bought in 2019 cost almost 2.5x as much as this upgrade kit is now selling for, so this is also highly cost efficient! Obviously since I am using it in a system with some slower memory, the system will clock down the new memory kit to the old memory speed, but so far this has been a great upgrade and everything is running smoothly!

Cons: I dont have anything bad to say about it! This is a sleek set of memory modules that fit into my system despite the other memory modules in my system having a rather large heat spreader. This memory definitely looks more sleek than the old memory in my system, and I wish I could have bought this back then!

Overall Review: Longevity remains to be seen, as I have only had the memory in my system for less than a few weeks, but I have rarely had any problems with RAM lasting in the long run, and Im confident that this memory will be serving me well for many years.

Pros: The Corsair HX1000i is an excellent power supply for any new build, in fact, the 1000 watts of power it provides is likely well beyond what even the most demanding gaming rigs should require. The 80+ Platinum efficiency rating is also a top notch rating, and is what attracted me to this power supply. These efficiency differences can seem small, but can really add up over time, especially if youre leaving the computer running frequently. The power supply is fully modular, making cable management simpler since you dont need to connect the power cables you do not need, and you dont have a big wad of cables coming out of the power supply together. This power supply is fully modular for every connector, including the motherboard and CPU connectors, not just the component connectors. The power supply is very generous with connectors, as is to be expected from a unit with such a high wattage. The 6 PCI express connectors it offers is a good indication that this PSU can handle even multiple graphics card workloads. Its also generous with SATA connectors and traditional molex connectors, it offered many more connections than I needed for my build, and thanks to the modularity, I was able to not plug in the cables I didnt need. The fan only engages when absolutely necessary for cooling the unit, so it can operate silently in a majority of conditions. In my build, it basically hasnt engaged at all. Im not going to be pushing this unit to its limit.

Cons: I dont really have anything bad to say so far, this power supply has delivered everything I expect from a power supply, and only time will tell if it will last - but in general, the Corsair power supplies I have bought many years ago are still going strong. Im hoping that the fact that I oversized the power supply for my build will mean the power supply will spend most of its life rather bored, not pushed to the limit, and this should further extend its lifespan.

Overall Review: Im using this power supply in a 4U server chassis for a server build with 6x2.5 drive trays and a Xeon 2650 CPU. Im looking forward to the power efficiency, from the Platinum rating, as this will be a server that will be powered on indefinitely. So far, everything went smoothly with the build, and I expect the power supply to be reliable and rock solid for years to come!

Pros: I have nothing but good things to say about this external SSD. It is very portable, lightweight, and pretty sleek looking! Since it’s an SSD, it is silent and seems to run totally cool. I ran a benchmark to test the performance and was blown away, with a 444.1MB/s average read rate and 418.6MB/s average write rate across 1000 x 100MB samples. I feel like this outperforms some internal SSD’s I’ve used. I broadcast some streams on Twitch and recently wanted to start locally recording streams from several computers at 1080p60, and have been using this drive as a portable video recording medium, it’s been working flawlessly.

Cons: This hard drive uses USB type C, and while it does come with an adapter (I don’t have any USB C ports on my computer), I think the adapter is a bit inconvenient to use since the cable could fall out of it. Especially since the cable is pretty short, so the drive sort of has to hang by the adapter when it’s plugged into my computer. That’s the part of this setup that I trust the least, though admittedly haven’t had any problems with it.

Overall Review: All in all this is a pretty convenient and handy little drive. It’s sort of a good compromise between a flash drive and an external hard drive, packing external hard drive level capacities into something only a few times larger than a flash drive, certainly still small enough to fit in your pocket and carry around with you easily. The performance is also a lot better than any flash drive or external hard drive that I have used. All in all I am quite impressed with this drive!