Pros: The Corsair RM650x 2018 [V2] is the update to their RM line featuring 80+ gold level efficiency. It is produced by long term OEM partner channel well [CWT] It is fully modular, main cables are very solid construction wise and it features Corsair standard flat ribbon SATA cables which are stiff but can be made more pliable with hot air. The mild update includes a bypass relay which supports the NTC thermistor, allowing for increased efficiency and enhanced inrush current protection. Also included is a PIC micro-controller to control the fan's operation and allow it to run at lower RPM's further cutting noise. All caps, primary and secondary are Japanese made by Nichicon and Nippon Chemi-con. The fan is a 135MM rifle bearing, good but could be better with FDB. The fan curve, it does not turn on until roughly 250 watts and remains flat at roughly 600 RPM until 600 watts are being drawn. Designed to be bottom mounted I can't see the temperatures even without any airflow of being any concern. Just note it's not temperature controlled but watt draw controlled. If your system rarely sees power output up to 250 watts not only will you have zero noise but I'd suspect the fan will easily last the 10 year warranty. Fit and finish is very nice in standard matte black, beige accent around the model logo. 10 year warranty and Corsair does a good job with RMA's if you needed to. Intel C6/C7 Power State Support Ripple is extremely low and voltage regulation is one of the better currently on the market. Cables included: 1 x ATX CABLE 24-PIN (20+4) 1 x EPS/ATX12V CABLE 8-PIN (4+4) 4 x PCIe CABLE 8-PIN (6+2) 9 x SATA CABLE (3 SATA) 4 x PERIPHERAL CABLE (4-PIN) 1 x FLOPPY DRIVE ADAPTER (4-PIN) Speaking of cables, to further line regulation the ATX, EPS and PCIe cables have caps under the shrink wrap, this adds some extra thickness which depending on your case might make for tighter fit through openings. Voltage is flat, using a digital volt meter at the max watts my setup can output [236 watts] I get: 12.19V 5.02V 3.20V Protections: Over Voltage Protection Under Voltage Protection Over Power Protection Over Temperature Protection Short Circuit Protection Surge Protection Inrush Current Protection

Cons: No fan test button, if your system does not draw up the threshold you won't know if you have a faulty fan. I was able to by adding some external DC fans get the PSU fan to kick on briefly enough to physically see it working and it was dead silent so I am satisfied. This is certainly not a deal breaker.

Overall Review: Price is competitive for the gold rating, power output and features. Included velvet bag is overkill but nice and can be used to store something. Included nylon pouch with velcro as Corsair has been doing for many years is handy for holding extra cables not being used. Once you setup your system most likely you won't visit this pouch often. I have a junk drawer with a couple of these pouches just in case. Overall the V2 of the RM line has great fit and finish, excellent regulation, low ripple and zero noise until around 250W and even then the RPM's are so low you won't hear it. The real competition within price and features would be the Seasonic focus and prime lines. It's a tough choice, both are excellent units. Seasonic PRIME is currently $10 more, has FDB hybrid fan and even better voltage regulation and MIR. Focus is $10+ less Purchase factor resides in current sales and/or MIR and personal preference [past history] To date I've never had a faulty Corsair or Seasonic unit, many are 5+ years old and still rock solid. Personally if I were to purchase today it would be a tough call but I'd go with 550W, I simply do not need that much power. If Corsair offered a 450W unit I might be inclined to save a few $$ and go that route if it supplied enough cable options. Empty connections are wasted connections but allow some future overhead. CPU/GPU are becoming less power hungry as time goes on and the best efficiency is actually running around 50% load per any tech site if that matters to you. Truth is between Gold, Platinum and Titanium you might see a few dollars power savings for an entire year so it's not something to overthink even running 24/7. I hope you find my review useful and thanks to Newegg for the chance to review this item.

Pros: Nice sized unit, not too large or small and it's very heavy so it's not going to get knocked over very easily. The drive includes software and utilities for windows and Mac thus no need for a CD which is not included or you can download the latest from WDC's main site. The front LED is white which is nice for a change instead of the super bright blue that are usually used. Each drive has it's own LED which will be black unless there is an issue in which case they will turn red alerting you to a problem that needs corrected. Installation was as easy as plugging in the USB cord, power and allowing windows to install some drivers and it's up and running. The unit is packed very well in the box which is always good to see. It's not DOA, always another plus. The drives in this unit are of course WD RED drives which are decent, not the fastest but decent. Two included USB3.0 ports on the back to daisy chain another My book or another external enclosure. The Price is fairly decent if you take into account a RED 2TB drive is roughly $100 each thus the unit with raid controller is only $79 currently. I doubt you will find any external hardware raid unit for that price point from anybody currently. Made in Thailand, not China!

Cons: WD is a bit misleading on their stats. The unit comes pre-configured for raid0 which is why you have 4TB but you do not have two 4TB drives. The idea behind backup is redundancy, you do not get that with raid0. This unit has a built in 50mm? fan but it does not turn on until the RED drives hit 60C! thus the fan will never turn on making it pointless. [WD confirmed this for me] WD states the RED drives can "safely" reach up to 60c max which is extremely hot and will really kill the lifespan plus induce errors and bad sectors as the media breaks down. Not sure I'd trust my critical media to that environment. That said doing benchmarks and transferring some files I easily had it up to 48C [120F] which I find a bit warm. I could feel the heat rising from the top of the unit and the unit had a slight burning plastic smell. My Lian-Li case has a top fan and once I put the WD My book Duo on top so it gets some decent airflow through the bottom grills [and out the top] the drive temps dropped to 84F which is so much better for long life. I never planned to have this on top of my case as it is rather heavy to leave on top of a aluminum case long term. Another issue is the fact there is no ON/OFF switch. You can setup with WD software to have the unit sleep but if you want to physically turn it off and put it aside then your only option once you eject it is to pull the power plug. The unit has a 2 year warranty which I found odd as the RED drives have a 3 year warranty. The unit should at the least match the same warranty as the drives. The metal plate that covers the drives I had a slight issue with. In order to remove the drives WD supplies plastic pull taps attached to one of the pins on the back. Not sure how long those might last but they should unless you are constantly pulling the drives out. The metal plate has a metal tab, it was bent on mine not allowing me to put it back on and screw it down flat so the plastic top would sit flush once snapped down. I had to bust out some needle nosed pliers to fix this.

Overall Review: The power supply is not WD made or branded but Ktec which seems to come with all types of external enclosures. If it fails out of warranty it could be purchased. Read speeds are decent but writes speeds in both raid0 and 1 are quite erratic. It might just be the way RED drives work but it's certainly not a smooth graph as I am used to. It would be great to see a My Book with raid10 but this would of course double the cost and double the width but you would get the speed with redundancy. I want to note this unit uses hardware raid which is generally robust with one caveat. You cannot pull one of the drives out and install it into another PC and read the files. Also with hardware raid if you decide you want to try another version or JBOD the drives will be erased to backup beforehand. WD just announce RED Pro drives with a 5 year warranty which appear to be faster and even more robust. I would not be shocked if WD creates a My Book Raid Pro in the future offering those drives with a longer unit warranty. Overall not a bad external backup solution which a few things that could be improved. Crystal benches: Read speeds are decent but writes speeds in both raid0 and 1 are quite erratic. It might just be the way RED drives work but it's certainly not a smooth graph as I am used to. It would be great to see a My Book with raid10 but this would of course double the cost and double the width but you would get the speed with redundancy. I want to note this unit uses hardware raid which is generally robust with one caveat. You cannot pull one of the drives out and install it into another PC and read the files. WD just announce RED Pro drives with a 5 year warranty which appear to be faster and even more robust. I would not be shocked if WD creates a My Book Raid Pro in the future offering those drives with a longer unit warranty. Overall not a bad external backup solution which a few things that could be improved. crystal benches empty raid0 Sequential Read : 280.368 MB/s Sequential Write : 227.841 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 310.199 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 213.924 MB/s raid1 Sequential Read : 213.472 MB/s Sequential Write : 137.789 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 107.493 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 205.398 MB/s HDtune read raid0 minimum 115 maxium 242 average 197 raid1 minimum 62 maxium 151 average 113 HDtune write raid0 minimum 30 maximum 186 average 145 raid1 minium 38 maximum 139 average 88

Pros: My first HP display since a 15 CRT and it's safe to say technology has come a very long way. First impressions with the ENVY 32 were excellent. Quad HD at 2560 x 1440 resolution @60Hz 10,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio 178 Degree horizontal and vertical viewing angles 5 Degree forward or 25 Degree backward tilt LED backlight combined with HP's BrightView technology Brightness: 300 cd/m2 7ms GTG response time Fit and finish is good, the cast metal stand is solid and needed due to the sheer size and weight. Going from a 22 to 32 is quite the visual experience. Windows scaled up the text to be highly readable. WVA+ panel, I knew it would look great due to owning a BenQ with the same panel. I'll assume the + is just the newer VA generation panels with faster response time but same/better quality. Blacks are very dark and whites are very vivid, text is crisp. Tried both HDMI and Display port and both work perfectly as intended at native resolution. Played a few games and watched some movies and I did not notice any lag or ghosting. I left all setting at default and did not need to adjust any settings out of the box to have a great picture. You do have the choice between neutral, warm, etc plus overscan and typical settings for a display of this price range in the event default is not to your visual liking. As a 2014 model it includes Display port, HDMI, MHL plus a built in 2.0 hub with two ports, one being powered for charging. That said older DVI is not included so if you have a older GPU you will have to buy a DVI-HDMI cable before use. Absolutely no dead pixels! Sound: Not a fan of Beats but I will say for dual front-firing-6 watt speakers they sound pleasant with moderate bass. Turning up the sound of course induces distortion as one might expect. They are adequate for movies, videos, etc but will not compete with a dedicated 7.1 150W system nor are not designed to. Volume is on the left bottom with a solid metal wheel. It's fairly smooth but does have some lateral play. Packaging: Very well protected with custom made sturdy foam. Unlike lower priced monitors all cables are included. High speed HDMI, Display port, MHL and 3.5mm for the speakers. ON led is small and white, a great change of pace from super bright blue LED. Sleep is classic amber. Absolutely no buttons on the front but on the backside right side for the settings menu, this makes the display very clean in appearance. External power supply is a plus in case it would die it could be replaced instead of needing the send the entire display in for repairs. Power cord is also separate. Included CD with HP MyDisplay Smart software. This highly expands your choice with 7 presets for viewing including Standard, Custom, Text, Movie, Photo, Gaming, and HP Enhanced+. The software also allows all adjustments through software bypassing the display buttons and remote.

Cons: Remote could probably be a better but in all honestly it might not be used that much once you set up the display to your liking unless you are going to use the speakers and sit far enough away to not be able to reach the sound wheel. Without any type of back light it can be hard to see the buttons. This is real nitpicking and certainly no deal breaker. Warranty is only 1 year, for the price I'd rather see 3 years.

Overall Review: Back in the day speakers were detachable if you were not going to use them, in fact my old HP 15 CRT had just that. The speakers are built to be streamlined so not possible but a nice choice if you simply will never use them, it adds 5 to the width of the display. No height adjustment. The weight plus size this could be difficult for stability, still it would have been a nice feature if possible. When speakers are on mute a small amber light on the left is on, it goes off when sound level is 1 or above. One might assume it would be the opposite to indicate sound is on. If you are using a standard computer desk/cubicle chances are this monitor will simply not fit due to size so measure beforehand. 34 length x 20.5 height. Overall a very slick mid-upper display with modern connections and features for it's reasonable price range thus great bang/buck ratio Edit, 8 years (5/22) later and this is still my main monitor! no dead pixles, sound is still great and the color/contrast is still spot on. Never an issue with gaming and the metal base is solid. I wish they made monitors of this quality now. Most now have a cheap plastic base that can't even support the unit.

Pros: Great fit and finish, has everything you need for a board in 2021 Intel LAN, good audio, enough fan headers in the right spots

Cons: I research boards up and down before purchase but somehow missed this board does NOT have RAID ROM, Intel dropped it from the B460 and I was building my board around Intel RAID Had I know this I would have not had went with duel SSD and instead installed a PCIE 4x which this board includes a nice heatsink. for 4X the speed.

Overall Review: Smart fan 6 is slick, I like the fact I can set up adjustments on all my fans for temp/control.

Pros: Fast, runs cool, hits specs from Samsung Pricing has come down from a few years ago

Cons: None

Overall Review: Latest SSD 2.5 from Samsung and it hits all the marks One of the more reliable brands on the market. Currently have a 850 and two 860's and they have been rock solid for years. I expect the same from the 870

Pros: Extremely fast for being low end, runs about 10F over room temp

Cons: Heat sink is only aluminum and small but seems to be alright. Nidec fan is quiet, no idea what bearings it has. Mine was made in China which is strange, first processor from Intel to be so.

Overall Review: Would love to see Intel contract with Noctua to make a fan/sink with braided 4 pin.