Joined on 12/06/09
AHCI and Firmware!
Pros: Very fast!
Cons: Look at "Other thoughts"
Overall Review: I WAS getting some lock-ups and not insane speed UNTIL I went to the Samsung website and downloaded Samsung Magician software which lets you update the firmware and then changed to AHCI mode in BIOS and it works FANTASTIC now! <<Dont forget to do these things!
Slowest Flash Drive Ever
Pros: It's OK if you loose it
Cons: My wife bought one of these and it is the slowest flash drive I've ever seen in my life. If you want to put something like a movie on it, you might as well just watch the movie because it will take the same amount of time. Seriously, its unbearably slow
Overall Review: My wife named hers "Fred"
WARNING, coil whine
Pros: This is a beast of a card, works really really good. Overclocks very well
Cons: 1) If you're planning on water cooling this card, forget about it. There are no "full blocks" for this card. I got a universal 980 block that cools the processor but not the other components and have been running it like that for a while with no problems but you should be a little smarter than that and just get a non "FTW" board so that you can get a full block and 2) This card DOES have some coil whine. Its really not terrible but its gotten worse the longer I've had it and it can sometimes be bothersome. If you're the type of person that can stand high pitched whines, try a different card.
Overall Review: Still a really great card if you dont mine the later 2 cons
Finally Dead (almost 6 years)
Pros: *Lasted almost 6 years of what I would call hard use, I personally thought it would last longer than 6 but I cant complain too much I suppose
Cons: *Lasted almost 6 years *By the time SMART threw up a warning on the drives life ending some of the files were already too corrupted to move over to another drive
A fair review
Pros: I got these speakers second hand from someone for Free who probably used them for a while, and now after another 4 years, yeah, they are not AWESOME or anything but still... They work, they are reliable.
Cons: Sometimes you have to give the subwoofer a little kick to make the sound start working correctly again. And I would NEVER pay $80 for these, which is currently what I see them listed for. Probably would give $30 for them
FACTS about the lifespan of this drive
Pros: Lots of storage, speed was fast enough to hold all my movies and tv which is all I used it for.
Cons: I just got a warning of this drive about to fail, as it stands right now it has 528 "Power On' counts and 23960 hours on. I find this disappointing considering my 1tb WD Black still works great at 1225 "Power On" counts and 41739 hours on and thats not to mention the WD Black was tortured in comparison.
All good
Shipped sooner than expected, packaged good, not a fake card. Happy with purchase.
Shipping takes a lifetime
I finally got the fan, and it works, but it took about 3 weeks to arrive.