Pros: While it can take a little time to set up the device using the software (Windows or Mac), it is easy to do. A step-by-step wizard effortlessly guides you through identifying all of the components in your system--even very high end components--and automatically configuring standard one-touch activities such as "Watch TV", "Watch DVD", "Play Games". I particularly like the way the remote confirms (via OK button or Help button) that the system did configure itself appropriately. If it did not (say, for example, your TV ended up on the HD2 input instead of HD1, or a component ended up turned off instead of on), the Help button quickly corrects such issues. For the first time ever, I was REALLY able to put away all other remotes. Well built, the weight and touch/feel are perfect, it's ergonomic and well-balanced, and the software allows you to customize all soft buttons (both the displayed text/picture and the activated function).

Cons: - Nobody will want to wait the "5 hours" the Quick Setup chart says to charge the battery before using; I was able to use the device immediately, right out of the box--the battery had enough of a charge to allow initial setup, which took me about 30 minutes from opening the box, to configuring, testing, and small tweaks to being done. -Expensive, but much less than other high-end remotes with touchscreen capability sold by home theater stores. I think it's a bargain, especially at NewEgg's discounted price. -Out of the box, the configuration was perfect except that the Watch TV screen was missing the 'Cancel' soft button for the Dish Network VIP-622 HD DVR - this had the effect that one could pull up the Guide, but had no way to make the Guide 'go away'. Easily corrected with the 'customize' feature in the software, and I also added the DVR button and Skip Fwd and Skip Bkwd features that we so often utilized with the Dish remote. -Can't auto set the volume

Overall Review: I almost bought the Harmony 1000 before a store clerk alerted me to the 1100 being the "current" and the 1000 being discontinued. Be sure to get the 1100! If somebody walks in front of the remote while you're trying to select an activity, the full setup might not occur; however, the confirmation screen and Help button quickly fixes such things. This is an issue with all remotes, not just the Harmony, but is something to be aware of. I love that it can control lights and blinds; might have to add those sometime, too. I mentioned lack of preset volume levels as a con; while you can obviously control volume directly, I'd love it if there was a way to say that my A/V receiver should be set "here" for movies (DVD/Blu-Ray) and "here" for watching TV, vs "here" for listening to music, as an initial reference volume. VERY easy to use--for the first time ever, I don't have to "train" guests on how to configure the system for TV or video watching. Oh, and NewEgg rocks-fast shipp

Pros: I've had great experience with Hitachi hard drives in the past. I've been running two 500GB SATA Hitachi's in my D-Link DNS-323 NAS for over two years, nearly 24x7, in a RAID-1 configuration (mirrored) with no issues. Time to upgrade, so after confirming the DNS-323 can support a 2TB drive (with a firmware upgrade, done), I ordered two of these Hitachi 2TB drives from NewEgg, with just a bit of concern about all of the DOA reports. A long time NewEgg customer, I was impressed by how these drives were packaged. Bare drives, but in their Hitachi factory-sealed static sleeves, then individually wrapped in big bubble wrap and each placed in its own smaller white box. These two boxes were then inside their own larger box, cushioned by heavy duty crumpled brown packing paper. I had no concern about drive condition based on how the drives were shipped--NewEgg exercised due caution.

Cons: Both drives were DOA. By DOA, I mean that they'd spin and click, but not be recognized by either my Vista Ultimate 64 bit system running a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard with the latest F7e BIOS, or by the Dlink NAS. On the same SATA channel, and with the same set of data and power cables, the older 500GB drive was recognized by BIOS. The new drive spun, clicked, and made a funny wheezing sound at the end of each spin cycle. At NewEgg's suggestion, I contacted HitachiGST support, who was very helpful but confirmed that the drives did indeed to be DOA and should be RMA'd. I've RMA'd them--they are on their way back to NewEgg for swap out. Be aware that RMA'ing the drives is at your shipping expense!! Cost me $10.90 using NewEgg's "discounted" RMA shipping label process, and does not reset your RMA period from original date of purchase. If the replacement drives are also DOA, I'll have to spend another $10.90 to return them, and will pick a WD drive.

Overall Review: I downloaded and ran Hitachi GST's "Disk Fitness Test" bootable CD--it didn't see the drives either. Hitachi GST support told me they do test the drives before they ship--in fact, they do a several hour burn in. Their best guess is that the drives have been mishandled somewhere between leaving the factory and getting to our hands.

Pros: NewEgg $139.99 special, bought two of these to replace the standard drive in my Dell Latitude E6410 laptop and to use the second in a drive caddy where the optical drive used to reside. No problems whatsoever. Used Seagate's free DiscWizard software (an Acronis product) to clone my existing hard drive to the new drive. Removed the existing drive, moved the new drive from the drive caddy to the internal HDD slot, and booted up perfectly very first time. Added the second Seagate STBD750100 drive to the drive caddy, used Windows' disk administration tools to allocate / quick format the drive and assign a drive letter, and we were up and running with 1.5 TB of space across two volumes. Prior to doing the work, I ran some ioMeter tests and saw a 2x improvement in random read/write and a 5x improvement in sequential read.

Cons: None so far.

Pros: Great processor.

Cons: Just be aware that although it is a boxed Intel retail set, this particular SKU does NOT include a heat sink/fan... it contains ONLY the CPU. You will need to order thermal protection separately. I don't see that notation anywhere on the product page, and it delayed my system build.

Pros: Makes four USB3 (USB2 compatible) ports accessible on the front of your case; can be installed in either a 3.5 or 5.25 slot using the included 3.5-5.25 adapter. Would suggest installing the power cable (connect either SATA power *OR* standard power, connecting both will kill the card, per the instructions!) and internal USB cable before sliding the unit into its slot, as it was hard to reach back in and connect those things after inserting it under a DVD/BD player. Must be used with a SIIG SuperSpeed 3.0 card (Model JU-P20512-S1), which has an internal USB3 connector to connect to this hub. The internal USB3 cable is included with the 4-port hub; the PCI-X card has one external USB 3.0 connector. The fact that the USB3 cable is included with the hub is not apparent from the info on NewEgg's site or SIIG's "what's in the box" site.

Cons: I bought this to get max speed out of a USB 3.0 flash drive NewEgg had on sale (A-DATA Superior Series 32GB S102 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (Titanium Gray) Model AS102-32G-RGY). Before installing the USB3 card/hub, I transferred a 1.6GB movie file from my desktop to the flash drive, and it took 57 seconds at Windows-reported 25MB/sec using USB2. After installing the hub and SIIG's supplied version 1.0.20.0 drivers, I got 34MB/sec, and transferred the same file in 40 seconds. This is with a Win7 64 bit quad core system with 8GB of RAM. I upgraded the drives to the latest NEC USB3.0 SuperSpeed drivers (SIIG buys the chipset from NEC), version 2.0.30.0, and saw no difference in performance. I'm not sure the $100 I spent to add USB 3.0 added a noticeable increase in value to me... I saved 17 seconds copying a 1.6GB file?

Overall Review: SIIG has the 1.0.20.0 drivers on the disk and their site, which were released in early 2010; in late 2010 NEC released version 2.0.30.0. SIIG doesn't have them on their site, but Gigabyte uses the NEC chipset, and does have the latest drivers. You can find them here: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3768&dl=1#driver Select 'Drivers' and your O/S, then find the NEC USB 3.0 drivers listed. At the time of this writing, 2.0.30.0 were the latest, dated 11/19/2010. After install, your device manager will list the controller as a 'Renesas Electronics' device instead of an 'NEC' device, but it does work and is the same chipset. If you *need* the latest drivers to fix any issues, this may be worthwhile to you.

Pros: I purchased four of these to use in an 8TB EXT2/JBOD NAS setup (D-Link DNS-343). Had absolutely no issues, and did not need to pre-format them in Windows like I had to do with the last batch of disks I reviewed. I slid them into the NAS enclosure, fired it up, it saw the drives, formatted them, and things are working beautifully. They are quiet, spin up fast. I was worried about stacking 4 drives so close together, but my NAS is running at a relatively cool 40C / 104F (variable speed cooling fan on the DNS-323).

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Great packaging by NewEgg; each drive is rolled in bubble wrap and put in it's own box; those boxes are then put in a larger box with padding paper. These drives can survive just about any UPS/FedEx journey in those padded conditions.