Pros: It worked. Blinding fast. Host controller uses a Via Chipset, those drivers work fine with this. Tried several different external eSATA boxes all were recognized by Windoze XP with no problems.

Cons: Plug the USb in before you attach the eSATA drive (not really a con, just a warning)

Pros: It works, and works well

Cons: Supplied with lossy power cable

Overall Review: Finally I have gotten my two units working reliably. Both initially had problems spinning up from idle, when one or other drive would intermittently fail to come up, causing the whole RAID to go off-line. Traced it down to the supplied power cable, which had a resistance of 0.35ohms. The voltage my 2.1amp 5V brick drops to 4.3 volts when the drives spin up, much lower than spec. The fix on one of my units was to replace it with a 0.19 ohm USB cable I had lying around, for the other I bought a $5 5V 2A power plug with the correct cable to plug into the RAID. Both work reliably now.

Pros: High speed, works best with modern cameras

Cons: Works best with modern cameras. Don't use this with old hardware.

Overall Review: This is by far the best card I have used in my Panasonic ZS3 with AVCHD and is the only card fast enough to reliably work seamlessly with my new DOD-F200HD camera. It is faster than the SanDisk MobileMate adapter for my PC USB. 100% reliable, when used with modern hardware supporting Class 10. I have seven of the A-Data 16Gb cards now, some in use over a year, and have had not one problem from this manufacturer.

Pros: Works at FXP speeds without a hitch. Bought two, both work fine.

Cons: Still a little more expensive than DV tape :)

Overall Review: Read/write speeds tested well, a true Class 4 SDHC card. Records 4+ hours continuously at FXP with my HF-100, matching the 4+ hours of the new BP-827 batteries. Just switch on the recorder and let it run... amazing automation...

Pros: The energy in this battery is similar to that in 8 AA cells, and it only weighs as much as 3 AA cells.

Cons: The BP-827 has just been announced in Japan, even larger still (for those of us that want to record hour upon hour of conference sessions).

Overall Review: I made an 8xAA emergency plug-in power supply for my HF100. That was a silly venture - buy several of these batteries. With more than 2 hours of video fitting on one 16 Gig SDHC card these big batteries allow you to do a lot more.

Pros: I installed two empty drives, switched the unit on, and it immediately began to build a RAID 1 (mirror) array. After that I connected it to one of the SATA slots in my computer and it was immediately alive. Partitioned it with Partition Magic and copied files over to it. With two ordinary WD drives I got 80MBps-40MBps with HD Tach, the fastest of any of my drives. Haven't bothered to connect RS232 or install any control software, the thing just worked right out of the box. I am amazed, and am going to purchase another one

Cons: The manufacturers website is down, they may be having troubles, so I am getting a second unit, which I can press into service should I later get a hardware failure and need to recover disks...