Pros: - I love the portability. I can use it with my mac and my pcs. I just move it to the computer I want to burn from, or one that is not being used. - burns fast - Toast software is very good and has lots of functions and options. I just use it for data back up though.

Cons: - It doesn't work on all my pcs, especially the older ones. A couple of my pcs just won't recognize the drive, and one locks up. Luckily, I've got a few computers that it works great with, or else I'd return it - although it comes with a FW800 cable, there is no FW800 output. That can be good if you want to be able to hook it into your FW800 port on a macbook.

Overall Review: I am now using this to back up all of our projects which usually run more than 100 gigs. The Toast software allows you to drag the entire folder over, and it will calculate how many discs it will take, and tell you when yo change them. If you've ever tried to back up using the built in mac drive, you'll appreciate that feature.

Pros: Good burners if you do not plan on using them a lot

Cons: These were actually on sale for $20 each when I got them, so I replaced my dupe tower drives with 11 of them. A year later, 5 of them are dead. Granted, we got our money's worth out of them for $20 each. And if they still were that price, I'd buy more with the assumption that they'd die in a year again. But not worth the $77 they are charging now. If you don't burn a lot, then this would be an ok burner.

Pros: Slicker GUI, if that is what matters to you. Cool desktop, if that matters.

Cons: Difficulty networking, installing drivers, nag screens all the time, printer sharing, etc. I wish I had just installed XP on this computer I built instead of 7. This is the hardest OS install I've done and I still haven't figured out some things that were just plain simple to figure out on XP.

Overall Review: I have been a dedicated PC user forever, having built several and souping up / upgrading the others in the office. In the last few years I've grudgingly bought a few macs and didn't care for them. But after sitting vista out, and hoping 7 would redeem it, I am disappointed. I actually like our new imac the best now, and I generally don't like apple. If the new google OS is any good, then microsoft's days are numbered.

Pros: I supposed for $50 this is a good board. I usually buy ASUS, but wanted to try Gigabyte. I like the BIOS better than ASUS. It was easy to install. Overall I wish I'd just gotten a bigger ATX board.

Cons: No onboard DVI out. No onboard 1394 I/O. Having trouble with the CD/DVD IDE port, and can't seem to read anything from several drives, so using an external USB drive. For some reason it even has a 1.4" floppy drive port.

Overall Review: I had bought a pre-built gigabyte PC and when the mobo fried, I bought this newer version so I could use the old CPU and RAM. It's fine for that, but it can never be anything more than an office PC running office software.

Pros: I am very impressed so far with this item, more than I thought I'd be. Cool features - - instantly recognized by all my computers, both Macs and PCs. - RAID is configurable. It comes out of the box as RAID 5 but I switched it to RAID 0 and it was easy to do. - the control panel is easy to figure out and accessible from any computer with a browser. Similar to a router. - Expandable. There are two esata ports and two USB ports. I have two esata docking stations set up with 1 TB drives which gives me a total of 12 TB. I could do the same with the USB but have them as printer ports - works great as a printer server BUT the real test was whether or not I could work off the drives. I own a video production company and I am trying to move away from decentralized storage to centralized storage. Today I was working on an HD project in Adobe Prem using 1280x720 files shot on an EX3 card. And it worked great, as if it were off the local drive. I wasn't expecting it to work frankly.

Cons: Very few cons, but a lot of times the write speed is slow when it should be fast and fast when it should be slow. I might copy a 400m folder over the network to the Lacie and it might take 10 minutes, then I could copy a 2 g file from the same computer over the network and it might take 2 minutes. Not sure what's going on there. Could be something I don't understand. - although it says it works as an FTP allowing remote access, using dynamic dns if you don't have a static IP, I have had a hard to getting it to work. I think it's my router's fault and not the server though. to be fair.

Overall Review: Customer service is good too. When I got it, it said there was only 7.5 TB, and I ordered a 10 TB. I called and got through in 2 minutes. The rep explained about the RAID setup, which I should have figured out, And that was that.

Pros: This is a great little device. I have a pile of SATA drives to troubleshoot and reformat, and with this docking station, I can plug them in and take them out easily. A real time saver. Works fine too, Win XP recognizes it right off.

Cons: The drives do get hot, as they are not cooled. It's not a solution for enclosures. But externals don't even have fans these days anyway.