Pros: Has many great features, many of which I have not used yet. Price was right. Easy to use interface. Transfers seem to be plenty fast, though I have not worked it too hard yet.

Cons: Resets when touched, if not connected properly (see below). The rebate that it references does not seem to be available on the rebate website. I will check back later, or contact them, maybe they are just slow updating the system. It is still a decent price even without the rebate.

Overall Review: I thought I had a defective one at first. Every time I touched it it would reset itself - quite annoying. Seems to be from static electricity. Other users have experienced this and sent it back, but you don't need to do this, there is an easy fix. The grounding screw on the back of the unit just needs to be connected to ground. I just cannibalized an old 3 prong plug, and stole the ground pin. I soldered a wire to this, and connected the other end to the ground terminal. I plugged the pin into an unused outlet ground (the round hole at the bottom) and it works perfectly. I can now touch it all I want, even shock it with enough static electricity that it hurts my finger, and it never resets.

Pros: Sometimes works. Has front USB access. Cheap.

Cons: SD slot doesn't always recognize the card. I have tried multiple cards (both SD and SDHC) and all cards work sometimes, don't work other times. CF card is hard to get in straight, the guides don't seem to work very well.

Overall Review: I will probably be replacing this.

Pros: Cheap(ish)

Cons: Loud and don't spin the greatest. Got 5 white and 1 pink (pink was not even shown in the pictures).

Overall Review: My mother-in-law had me order these for the grand-kids, and expected them to be all different colors, so they could tell them apart. I guess we should have read the reviews a little better. She is very disappointed that they are mostly the same color. We didn't really expect them to be the greatest quality, but at least expected some more diversity. We will not buy again.

Pros: Worked fine while it worked

Cons: As with dozens of others reported recently, mine died after about 3.5 years (just past the warranty, of course). It tripped a breaker in my house, but no damage to the computer.

Overall Review: Seems like maybe these were all part of a bad batch? Or maybe just a bad design? Just wish it happened 6 months ago under the warranty...

Pros: Bootable, Hot-swappable, decent software management, seamless background rebuild.

Cons: RAID 5 is slow, but that is to be expected on a card like this. Only high end cards with hardware parity are any better. Rebuild times seem a little slow, but probably about par for this type of controller (about 16 hours for a 750GB mirror).

Overall Review: I have tried RAID 5 on various controllers, but decided it was too slow on any but the most expensive cards. This card was similarly slow, so I have given up on RAID 5 completely. I currently have 2 of these cards (and 1 RC-209-EX) in a Win2003 server system with 10 removable drive bays, running multiple RAID 1 mirrors. I periodically swap out 1 drive in the mirror for an external backup, and put the old backup drive back in and rebuild. I have been running this for 2 1/2 years with no issues. The software is easy to use and recognizes all 3 controllers in one place (all silicon image controllers) so it is easy to manage all of my arrays. Swapping drives and rebuilding is relatively easy, and can all be done without rebooting the system. Even rebooting or shutting down during a rebuild is fine, and it just resumes where it left off the next time it is booted. Overall I like this card, and the Silicon Image controllers and software in general.

Pros: Easy to set up. No extra drivers required. Sturdy slots. Great guides on CF slot to ensure proper insertion. SDHC support. It even has dedicated slots for microSDHC and miniSDHC cards without the need for an adapter. Solid CompactFlash slot with guides.

Cons: A little more expensive than others, but well worth it now that I haven't had to replace my reader every other month. The blue light is a little bright in a dark room, but it matches my other case lights.

Overall Review: This is a professional quality reader. I have owned several other cheaper readers, and some have had problems recognizing cards on insertion, others had poor (or no) guides on the CF slot and weak connection pins causing them to go in crooked and bend the pins. This one has had none of those problems. This has been working flawlessly for over a year now. I will definitely by this reader or at least this brand again if I ever need another one (which is doubtful since it works so well).