Pros: I would like to say that I also have the 2 Gb version. I accidentally dropped it in a parking lot in the winter. It spent two months there getting snowed on, plowed into snow banks and driven on. In the spring when the snow melted I found the drive and still use it to this day! Now I have one which is 16 GB and it cost 5$ less than the 2 GB one I have did. It is generally accepted that larger flash drives have slower speeds but this one seems to be on par with my 2 GB model.

Cons: The use of friction as a cap retention mechanism is less then ideal. The cap is easy to loose.

Pros: SSD's are fancy

Cons: Drive is basically a $280 paper weight. I suppose you could use it to keep your music on or something like that but it is a garbage system drive. The system will grind to a halt if anything writes to the disk. And the data corruption issues some of you may have heard about make it necessary for me to reinstall the OS every week or so.

Overall Review: I immediately had problems with this disk. I RMA'd my first one and the new one has the exact same issues. There is faulty technology involved in the construction of this disk. Either OCZ should recall this defective product or we should be able to exchange them for a full refund. And I have spent plenty of time watching the OCZ forum to keep abreast of what's happening with these disks and it doesn't look good. It seems pretty definitive now that in many situations these disks are slower than the slowest drive you can buy from Newegg.

Pros: Areca supposedly makes good cards.

Cons: Three SSD's, RAID 0 = crash every time there is any real disk activity. The same array works fine on ich9r. Five months in testing. And lets not forget the price for four ports.

Overall Review: I contacted Areca on the matter. They said that they got no response from the the SSD manufacturer when asking for units to test with to improve their firmware. I connected them with a rep from the SSD manufacturer who shipped them several disks to experiment with. There has been no response from Areca to either me or the SSD manufacturer since. The Areca rep said that the SSD's sent to them were a "loan". I am suspicious of anyone who I loan things to that then neglect to return my calls. The card is a $300 paperweight for me. It might be good for ading more SATA ports to a system. But then, there are much cheaper solutions for that. Also if you are thinking about using this card for any modern SSD's, think again. Even if my situation is a fluke, the card is limited to about 400 MB/S. That's less that what 2 SSD's these days can put out. Get a new motherboard with igh8r or up for less money instead.

Pros: Silent. My system is a little more snappy than it used to be. SSD's are cool.

Cons: I had to jump through hoops to be able to boot from it. Now that I got it running I notice that it does choke when trying to do multiple things at once; like installing software and browsing the internet and trying to open multiple instances of windows explorer. That's an experiment I have conducted several times. Moving the page file to a different drive helped this a lot.

Overall Review: Those of us who are buying these need to be prepared to be on the bleeding edge where cost is top dollar and reliability is second to performance and shiny newness. Operating systems and motherboard manufacturers just aren't keeping pace with SSD's. In several years I'll be telling my children about how I got one of the first SSD's on the mass market and it cost 280$ and was only 64 GB. And it will seem to them like it does to me now when my mother tells me about data centers using reel to reel tapes back in the day when she worked for Digital. My purchase of this resulted from a long internal debate between Core SSD and Velociraptor. I had to go SSD because I simply couldn't justify spending money on the last ditch efforts of spinning media manufacturers trying to keep a dying breed afloat.

Pros: Silent.

Cons: Asus tech support is less than helpful. For what ever reason my card doesn't work with Vista. NVIDIA tells me it's the card and Asus tells me it's the driver. I'm assuming that if it were the driver no one with the card would be able to use Vista. It has taken me one month to get an RMA from them. Honestly I just want a refund so I can buy an ATI card but that's not in the cards. Asus is going to make me wait how ever long it takes for the RMA process to go through (maybe another month?) to use my PC. This is osmething I can't do as I use my PC daily for work. Is Asus going to pay my salary for the time I'm without a graphics card because they make faulty hardware?

Overall Review: Avoid Asus like their products have leprosy. If you get one of their products and it doesn't work you're out of luck. Their RMA department treated me worse than any organization I have ever encountered.

Pros: Cheap. DDR 2. Shiny chrome.

Cons: not able to jive with all systems.

Overall Review: You get what you pay for. If this RAM works with your system I bet it's great. I for one have NO DESIRE to jump through hoops to make my RAM cope with my mother board. If you like such a challenge and are willing to send you DIMMs back to OCZ to have them reprogrammed to work with your mobo (and pay for sniping)then go ahead and buy these.