Joined on 04/10/07
Amazing NAS mobo
Pros: 8 sata ports! RAID support EUFI BIOS pretty cheap gigabyte microATX
Cons: Only supports RAID 0/1/5/10 Only 2 ram slots
Overall Review: Driver installation was pretty simple. Motherboard looks quality. Bios is.. a bios. RAID support worked well. Raid BIOS is reasonable intuitive. Make sure you configure your array before OS installation!
SLOW. Kingston did something with this drive.
Pros: Came with a bracket. Boots were reasonably quick.
Cons: If these drives were fast at some point, they're not anymore. Benchmarks gave me about 100mb/s read and write. I believe the write was actually less. That's pretty disappointing for an SSD.
Overall Review: For slightly more money, you could have a 1TB spinning drive that performs just as well, or a 120-128GB SSD that's 4 times faster than this. Don't skimp. Get a better drive.
Died after 8 months
Pros: Great while they lasted. Good price, probably the most obvious choice for DDR2 FB ECC memory (not many options there) Kingstons RMA process was SEAMLESS. Modules died Friday night at 4pm, called them up, talked for 15 minutes, and my replacements were here Monday afternoon. They covered the cost of overnight shipment for me!
Cons: Died in 8 months. Sure they were in a server 24/7.. but still. I expected way more from these modules.
Overall Review: We'll see how the replacements fair. Ill keep my spare ram handy..
Worked well for a while, but eventually a switch started malfunctioning
Pros: Cheap, feels great. Extremely close in feel to the nicer $100+ mechanical keyboards I've tried. Plus is comes with rubberized WASD and UDLR keys that i really like. It makes it easier to find my position on the keyboard using the rubberized keys, all without looking down.
Cons: After about 4 months, my T key only works about 50% of the time. There's nothing stuck in it, I've never spilled anything on it, it just stopped working. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes i have to slam it to get a response. Its a pain. Every other key works extremely well, and this is probably an anomaly.
Overall Review: I'm going to RMA the keyboard, but its a shame that i have to. Cheap keyboard, but when you add the cost of shipping to rosewill and the time ill have to use my membrane backup keyboard, I'd rather just spend more on one of the QuickFire keyboards or something.
I have 7 of these
Pros: Great mobos! nice, cheap, seem thick and high quality. Haven't had a single failure yet, and I've been running 7 of these for about 4 months now. The included driver disc is even great. No bulky or useless utilities (cough.. im looking at you asus), just drivers, google chrome, and the on/off charge software (which actually works!). Board has a good amount of usb ports, and vga! i was happy to see VGA, DVI, and HDMI all on one board.
Cons: None so far really. When it comes to motherboards, if they work, they're usually great.
Overall Review: UFI bios is pretty cool looking too.
Great (so far)
Pros: Tiny. Sturdy. No caps to loose. Fits great on a key chain. Pretty fast for USB 2.0. Always had great luck with patriot. My last patriot drive ran a live install of Ubuntu (this is pretty hard on a drive) for more than a year before it finally wrote its last write.
Cons: Swing thing is a little awkward, but its a great alternative to a cap that you would loose. It stays closed when you need it to, which is great, but makes it slightly more difficult to open.
Overall Review: I have my FreeNAS installation running on this drive. Chose it because of its size&price. But this is a perfect drive for your key ring.