Pros: What a nice hard drive, heavy tho, but silent, dependable over the month or so I have used it. I have to put my finger on it to see if it is running, and I have a quiet puter. Seagate has been my second best brand for go-to HDs, WD first, but actually, I have not really had a bad time from Seagate except that one where you had to change the firmware with a floppy back a few years ago, I think it was a 500GB, but my memory is not so sharp lately. Every brand has DOAs once in a while, it is the nature of ESD damage mostly, if there is a lightning strike on the plane or it gets near a magnet, ooops. I got the times below virtually off of every size block I used on my little HDTune free tester deal which only registered it as 2199GB, which I guess is their limit, see more below about that. I tested at 8MB, 4MB, 512KB, 128KB, and got within 5% same readings, so I will just give an average: Min 130-MB/s MAX 198MB/s Avg 169MB/s Access Time 11.4ms Burst speed 192.3MB/s tho is showed ms, must be glitch. CPU usage < 1% I had a boot drive of Sata3 SSD Samsung 840 plain, 250GB, and another storage drive of WD Green Sata3 1TB involved in the testing. When I did some transfers in the puter, I got from 110MB/s at 40GB size from WD green to this HD, to 184MB/s from the SSD to this HD. Interesting to me, this HD to SSD was at best 180MB/s which is pretty fast reading in my book for a spinner. Seems well made. Came in cardboard box with the black plastic end caps they use. In ESD bag, thankfully. Here is where I give my speech that people that get consistent DOA items should look into grounding wrist straps, it is really a BIG problem in todays world as it was for the last forty or more years I have worked in the industry of electronics/electrical. I only registered 83 degrees Faren. while testing with a light breeze from a fan on it.

Cons: Would make excellent paperweight, heavier than two regular HDs. Don't even think of putting it into a laptop portable, heh. I don't really have any hard bads about this HD that I could take a star off. I would warn Nubies to look elsewhere unless you have the latest MBs and Controllers working this baby, cause a LOT of manufacturers haven't kept up with the size increases this invokes. Luckily I was using an ASRock Extreme 4 Z77 MB with the windows style interface for what used to be a BIOS. AND it had a little +2TB program to use if you wanted to use the 3TB biggie for a boot drive. That is apparently where most of the problems occur, as opposed to using it as a storage drive. Read up on it if you intend to use it for a boot drive before purchasing unless you are confident of your skill level with software utilization. It ain';t easy peasy if you are a nube. In fact, even for a storage drive, I would advise to stick to 2TB or less if you want to avoid software problems with everything it seems.

Overall Review: Seems nice if you understand the problems that will occur with a lot of other programs and devices. I would say that for a power user, this might fit the bill for a nice RAID arrangement even tho it is intended for video and surviellance uses. Quiet and cool rule in RAID, and dependability matters a lot in Near LIne uses too.

Pros: D-Link is a quality company that I look to for good functioning networking gear. It is one of four I consider when purchasing networking gear. This product is well crafted, looks like quality. The two eggs are because of the good idea, and good workmanship. The good idea is to have a portable router that does a number of things that a person on the road or off-site could use at a reasonable price and size. The good workmanship cause it looks like a professional piece of gear that is well made. The third egg is cause it does work and will benefit those who buy with knowledge of its limitations. It just lacks implementation of the ideas in a practical manner. Perhaps more on the road testing and brainstorming might be in order. I really don't believe that there is any untruthful advertising on D-Links part, perhaps just wishful thinking on the part of consumers that it would do what they want and not just what it can in reality do. The best thing about this product is that perhaps it will open the door to better implementations of this idea, maybe with D-link leading the way. As long as a person knows what he is getting and the limitations of this device, and that it will not play every file they can find, but will play most of what people use usually, I would not detract from the price hunters desire to try it out, just read the specs very carefully and other reviewers experiences.

Cons: The only power source is a albeit powerful 1700mAH expensive replaceable battery only recharged through the USB 2.0 port. Takes about 3-4 hours, and lasts about the same amount of time when in use. There should be another perhaps wallwart AC adapter to charge the unit faster and more conveniently when in a hotel room or office. It doesn't seem sensible to drain a laptops battery to power a power source for another portable device like smartphone. An external antenna would be nice, however, I think I understand that would add to the cost and reduce portability of the unit, and it is not made to substitute for a regular permanent router, just enough to fill a room or two with access temporarily. A CD should be included with either setup programs or at least easy instructions for average office people to use on the road. Seemed kinda tedious in setup. I think a price in the fifties might be reasonable due to the cost of the battery mostly. This is not a cheap 600mAH battery, but a heftier and more expensive 1700mAH. A faster USB 3.0 port would be in order.

Overall Review: There needs to be a simplification and standardization of the Wi-Fi networking impementations. More programs that automatically find each other and use a standard identification format that can be setup with minimal knowledge on the users part. I know Apple will hold your hand, but PCs should be able to govern themselves with a more rigorous set of rules.

Pros: If you liked the 300 Antec, then you will LOVE the 302, it is much the same although without the bothersome front cages. It also has the USB 3.0 outputs in front along with the mic and speaker outputs. Has filters on ALL input areas including the darn power supply, check the little drawer for the filter for PS. There is also one in front like the 300 had. Still nice and heavy, about 15 pounds, no LAN case for carrying to parties all the time, tho rugged. The new plastic thingys for putting in drives work well.

Cons: Can't think of any except they could lower price since they must make a LOT of them.

Overall Review: Get this if you want a heavy nice little mid sized case with room for almost any install. Even fits a GTX 580 monster. Love Antec since 1997, every case I bought I still use.

Pros: very good quality, heavy weight. Long enough cords for Antec 302 case. 8 pin cpu power cable could be two inches longer tho. Quiet smooth.

Cons: cpu power 8 pin could be few inches longer for good routing. The connectors are usually at upper left corner and new cases put the power supply at bottom.

Overall Review: Good looking, good working, quiet and smooth. Braids are worth an extra five bucks.

Pros: I have been building PCs since 96, and overclocking since the Celeron 300 up to 450. I have some experience. This is a great board for the price. I have used it with a Pentium 2 core K type processor and a i5 4590 unK type. Except for the following problem which you should check out before buying to make sure the clearance isn't too close. This board has the smallest clearance at that point b etween the connectors of all I have seen, so just check if your case's usb 3.0 connector is slightly larger than usual, and as well the width of your power supply connector 24pin.

Cons: The power to the motherboard thru the 24pin rectangle connector is too close to the USB 3.0 front connector to use with "SOME" Cases. I used an ANTEC 302 case along with an EVGA 500W power supply. It does not have enough room to fit well, I bent the pins in second row of the USB 3.0 connector to the point of being unusable. Luckily, I had a PCIeX1 USB 3.0 board that fit into the small slot connectors in back area of case, and it had a USB 3.0 front blue connector just like the motherboard had, and was able to connect the USB 3.0 connector from the Antec 302 case into the board easily. IT also added two usb3 ports.

Overall Review: Everything else great for price. Seems pretty stable for mild overclocking, not an extreme board of course, but has a lot of options to use to get a stable speed. I used a 3 pipe CoolerMaster cpu cooler which worked well with the 2 core.

Pros: I don't own this, but have experience with motherboards and ASrock. This one has the bells and whistles of the Z97 series without the higher price tag. HAS 8-pin CPU POWER connector for high power cpus like i7s or E3 servers. Has more SATA6GB/s inputs for SSDs or HDs than the cheaper models. Your Windows OS is tied to your motherboard if you get OEM series, so get a good motherboard like this even if on budget.

Cons: Compared to Z97, won't overclock K series or G3258, but has a lot of PCIeX1 and PCI slots besides the PCIeX16 v3 slots.

Overall Review: You have a choice and this is a good one.

Was also hesitant to order from unkown seller like this but with Newegg backing them up, I was ready to try them out. Ordered on 10th, was here on 16th, properly packaged and protected. Boxing could be wrapped for a gift. Came with all parts and brand new exactly as promised. My order was the Keycool keyboard model 84II in black with Cherry Brown Switches and White LED backlite. Had NO problems at all, was looking at spending weeks waiting for cutoms or something to delay it, but was pleasantly surprized by how quick it got here. Came from Kentucky, USA.