Pros: Can't get cheaper than this at any density even close. Fan is small but not too loud. Hardware seems durable enough, and looks nice. Fitment is good.

Cons: Not sure if it's this module at fault (though I think it is), but the activity lights don't seem to work right. I'm running two of these with multiple different SATA controllers behind, and an array of different SSD installed, and the activity lights only seem to fire on two of the 16 drives. It's more than just annoying - an easy way to identify a drive is to dd from it to /dev/null while the array isn't in use and see which activity light comes on, but that doesn't work here. You can also gain information by watching activity lights during a scrub - say, which disks are slowest, or whether your btrfs array is balanced the way you want/expect.

Pros: Cheap, 8 ports on an 8x PCI-E means you get full SATA speed per port (or close enough to it).

Cons: A nightmare to get running on Linux.

Overall Review: I got this card working on Debian last year, and ran it just fine with kernels 3.2 through 3.16. The drivers page is here, you'll want the "Linux open source" driver (which looks like a binary blob to me). http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/cs-series_rr2600_download.htm The 4.0 kernel hit stretch recently, and I have not been able to get this card running again under that new kernel. So maybe they'll issue a new version of the driver, or maybe I was just doing something wrong. Either way, it has been a lot of work to keep this thing running under Linux, and I'm done. Port expanders ahoy.

Overall Review: NEMIX rules Newegg, don't be suspicious. RAM problems are exceedingly rare in my experience, and this module does exactly what I wanted it to.

Overall Review: Bought 3, price was unbeatable and the manufacturer thinks these are reliable drives, given the 5 year warranty they assigned them. But as others have said, the packaging was insufficient - the drives were stuffed into bubble wrap sleeves that were open on one long side, so the drive could bang around against the box on that side during shipping. That said, all the drives survived a full destructive 4-pass badblocks run and never had errors or reported anything suspicious in smartctl, so I've put them in use. Took a few days to transfer enough data to bring the btrfs raid5 (I know) array to 1/3 usage and still no issues. Also, the reason these drives are so cheap is because they're old stock. The date of manufacture on the drives I got was September 2022, which means I lost a year of warranty. I'm just a homegamer so I'm willing to take that hit for the price savings - actually calling in an HDD warranty is rare even though I've gone through dozens of drives, usually failures happen well after the warranty period. But in a professional environment I probably wouldn't use these drives.

Pros: Right price, form factor, capacity, trusted brand.

Overall Review: If you have the knowhow, the way to go on a Steam deck is to buy the lowest cost one, get a larger drive like this one, dd the old drive to the new, and expand the filesystem.

Pros: - Lightning fast - Famed 3d xpoint reliability (RIP) - Dirt cheap

Cons: - 3d xpoint discontinued 😭

Overall Review: All my servers have little boot drives like this one - all they need is a small amount of fast, reliable storage. Wish these drives weren't going to go away soon.