Pros: Does everything I know of that a printer can actually do. CD/DVD(Blu-Ray) printing option a real plus, and so is the dedicated input tray for photo paper. Scanning (with a little hickup detailed below) is awesome. Setup and works great on network (used wired because it's right under my router).

Cons: Sometimes clicks and whirs for a bit before first page out; even with minimum ink volume and minimum dry time set it pauses before duplexing a page,--some other HPs don't. One suggestion for HP: some kind of fax to web or over some kinda VOIP service would be nice as less and less of us have land lines.

Overall Review: Perhaps all the people crying about this printer and it's horrible software were dumb enough to use the driver CD. I downloaded the newer version from the web and while install took a while it's worked great. On other computers (Windows 7) I just double-clicked it in the network "explorer". One note: it's best to install most everything, software-wise. I spent an hour or two trying to do a duplex scan until I eventually realized I needed to go back and install the 'HP Solution Center' software. Luckily I figured it out myself by an oblique reference in their online support (the more direct references--including the main how-to animation show duplex scanning being a choice and just working from the device--that menu item isn't there by default but can be setup through 'Solution Center'). The third-world script reader I started to work with may or may not have gotten there, HP's support could certainly be better.

Pros: Great idea. Like that the drive slots have individual power buttons.

Cons: Doors are flimsy / should probably be removed before they break on in use, if they don't arrive pre-broke like mine. Eject button for 3.5 hard to use, takes *a lot* of pressure to get a drive to pop out far enough to grab. Eject button for 2.5 is entirely worthless when I tested it, would not have been able to remove drive if I'd already mounted the bay into my computer. Both ejection arms are flimsy and should move further.

Overall Review: Out of the box the 2.5" door was already detached, and the 3.5" door came loose as I moved it the first time. Ok, other reviews mention it's probably best to remove them straight away... turns out they're right. First thing I did was slide in a HGST laptop (rotary drive). The eject button does NOTHING. There's a cut out over the circuit board right where the lever tries to hit. Probably works *a little* better with a big square SSD. Then I slid in a full size drive, and the 3.5" eject button also has almost effect--unless you push it really hard. The price is actually pretty high for such flimsy plastic cr@p. These key parts should be metal and possibly geared to increase force/distance. Pity, I like other products from IcyDock.

Pros: 8 bays, support for 2TB drives, fast interfaces, multiple levels of protection including dual redundancy.

Cons: We'll see if its fast enough to give those interfaces any point...

Overall Review: The Ethernet port is iSCSI *only*, best used to directly connect the device to a computer or server. Not necessarily any improvement over FW800 if you have a fast card in a PCIe slot. You could connect iSCSI through a switch but that adds a point of failure, the possibility of network congestion slowing throughput, and you'd still need some kind of metadata controller to have more than one machine access a partition. The Drobo Pro could be used as the shared disk for MS Server Cluster, but I'd want its' reliability well established before trying that. It'll be interesting to see what speeds the Drobo Pro is capable of (even the new version of the smaller Drobo isn't particularly special in that department) and whether it could be used for video editing... But if you need something affordable to serve data directly to a network look at something like Netgear's ReadyNAS line.