I got this because I needed something light weight and easy to manuver around my large yard.  I attached it to another existing one of these I had bought last year.  And when you have 150 feet of metal to lug around filled with water, I don't care what kind of hose it is, it gets heavy especially metal.  It gets caught on everything on the ground.  And it leaks where I attached it to the other hose.  I even tried to wrap it, put a new washer in there...nothing.  The only bonus is that I can wrap it in my storage container pretty easy.