Pros: Very powerful chip.A single 2687W V3 is able to meet or exceed two Intel X5680 processors in performance metrics. 10 [email protected] is a boon for highly threaded applications.Really tears through HD video encoding/editing.Also great for running VMWare Workstation which really takes advantage of powerful hardware for superior virtual machine performance. Runs very cool.Single tower coolers will have no problems with cooling it.

Cons: Price.My wallet is crying.

Pros: Huge capacity.Solid performance.Peak reads and writes are just over 150 mb/s.Access time are around 16 ms for the reads and 5 ms for writes.Overall performance is a little bit better than the 3tb Red which I own and easily the fastest Black yet.This drive is also surprisingly quiet for a Black drive.I own the 2tb black and it is noisy.I had the 4tb black running next to my Red and couldn't tell which was louder.

Cons: Drive has a bad sector that was reported by SMART.It also failed WD Lifeguard testing as well so I will be returning it for replacement.Price is about as massive as the capacity.I used a promo code to bring it down some.

Overall Review: I am very disappointed about the bad sector but it happens.It's not the first problem I've had with hard drives and won't be the last.I will not jump off by Western Digital bandwagon just yet.

Pros: Excellent board to build a powerful workstation around.Compatibility with150W processors was needed in my case.I have a dual E5-2687W V2 configuration and they run without issue.Not all dual socket boards are rated to function with 150W processors.Sixteen memory slots are great for future memory capacity expansion.Other boards from competing manufacturers only have 8 ram slots.The PCI-E X16 slots will run crossfire just fine as I'm currently running two AMD R9 290X video cards.Some people have had issue with the on-board LSI raid controller but in my experience it has performed without issue.I have a Crucial M500 960 running on it as a boot drive and two other WD 2TB Black drives for storage.Proper configuration is needed to enable a specific drive to be a boot drive.

Cons: Depending on BIOS the board won't post with the latest Intel E5-2600 V2 processors.The latest BIOS release would post with the V2 CPU's but ONLY with ECC memory.I intended to use non-ECC unbuffered memory pulled from my previous system.After contacting Supermico about my issue they eventually provided me with a beta BIOS that does work with the V2 processors and non-ecc memory configuration.You might need a V1 cpu to update the board if the BIOS is too old.I bought a single E5-2603 to update mine.

Pros: Massive 4 terabytes of capacity on only 4 platters thanks to the incredible platter density.Actual formatted capacity is 3.63 terabytes which is still a huge amount of space.Not a 7200rpm drive but at 5900rpm it still delivers solid transfer rates.HD Tune Pro measured sequential reads and writes from 78 mb/s to 167 mb/s throughout the disk.Access times ranged from 13-17 milliseconds.Decent times considering the size and spindle speed.Drive ran fairly quiet and cool.Price is just right at $210 which I purchase mine for.Far cheaper than Western Digital and Hitachi 4 terabyte drives right now and nearly equals those drives in performance with a slower spindle speed.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I didn't purchase the drive here at Newegg.Found the retail boxed version for sale at another retailer.I'm not a Seagate fan but right now after being disappointed with the 4tb Western Digital Blacks failing on me I've turned to Seagate for reliable and affordable 4 terabyte hard drives for my needs.

Pros: Toshiba brand but Hitachi technology.Great performance.Sequential reads and writes peak at 195 mb/s.The drive runs fairly quiet considering the capacity and 7200rpm.Features 1 terabyte per platter design and 4K Advanced Format.Drive is lighter in weight than most older 2tb drives on the market thanks to only having 3 disk platters making up the enormous capacity where other designs use 4 or more platters to reach such high capacities.

Cons: Price seems to be going up on these drives.

Overall Review: Probably the fastest 3.5 inch drive on the market right now.Hitachi fans should rejoice.The solid Hitachi hard drives will continue to live on under the Toshiba brand.

Pros: Superb performance.Sequential Reads are just over 500mb/s and sequential writes are at a solid 400mb/s when in performance mode and drop down to 350mb/s in storage mode.4KQD32 IOPS are 92,000 on random reads and 94,000 on random writes.I feed this ssd with compressed and non-compressed data and there wasn't any difference in performance.Even filling the drive to 90% didn't impact performance. This Barefoot 3 controller is very powerful. Build quality is excellent.The casing is all metal.Has some weight to it.Makes my other plastic casing ssd drives feel cheap and fragile. 5-year warranty.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I've been so impressed by this 128gb model that I've ordered the 512gb model for my personal workstation.I actually bought the 128gb Vector and 128gb Samsung Pro for evaluation and chose Vector over the Samsung due to superior 4K performance and build quality.Both drives are incredible.