Pros: Best raid card I've ever used, even my old job's data center didn't have anything this nice. Running 9 400GB seagate hds in raid6 with over 100MB/S read!

Cons: 1/3 the cost of my truck.

Overall Review: You'll need that second psu to use 16 hard drives.

Pros: Used to be very reliable. Big, pretty cheap.

Cons: Order 3 a couple of weeks ago, all 3 came with the bugged firmware SN05. I'm not going to try flashing them to SN06, I've heard that SN06 degrades raid performance severely. I've had a sharp increase in failures with ones I've recently purchased. Least a 5% fail rate in ones bought within 6 months, while still <1% for all drives from order 6 months to 3 years ago.

Overall Review: I'm going to hold off buying any more Seagate drives for a few months. Going to wait till stocks of the defective drives are gone and there is a new model number thats know defect free. The SN check claims that mine are not affected. http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 I might get some WD RE3's instead later and either RMA these or use them for something unimportant.

Pros: Shorter than the previous M401n (though I think the foot print might be slightly larger) Other than the cons below, its pretty much the same as the M401n.

Cons: Prints some PDF forms incorrectly. Example: all lines of text on some pages will be upside down. This does not happen on the same system and forms with the M401n. In less than 150 pages, the drum on the toner cartridge started leaving dots on the pages. This is something I might expect from a worn out refurbed cartridge, but not a brand new OEM one with fewer than 150 impressions. Driver install slightly more annoying than the M401n. Also had issue after first install where all of the installed printer devices had their drivers messed up, requiring manually deleting all of the currently installed drivers and manually reinstalling each device., my t Uses a different toner cartridge than M401n. This was extremely annoying when HP does this, my toner supplies are segmented enough between model likes without them now doing between revision within the same model line (400 Pro). The redesigned cartridge is likely due to making the printer lower profile, but had it been the same as the M401n, I think the print issues would not have happened.

Overall Review: I bought 9 of these for new hires since the M401n was discontinued. I'll be returning all of them and looking for something else.

Pros: Have not used it yet. Specs are nice for the price range, so its either going to be very nice, or end up a total avoid like the WD Reds.

Cons: Like the other reviewer said, the lack of having locking on the SATA connector is a really big omission. It would not have been as huge of a deal if it wasn't extra loose compared to early SATA1 that did not have cable locking. The design was likely intended for backplanes, but even standard SAS drives have cable lock support, so I don't see why WD had to do this.

Overall Review: I may put these in one of my servers instead of the new desktop; while I have an extra RAID backplane I could mount up in this thing, I can't give up the 5.25" drive bays for it. I've got a family friend that's an engineer at WD, I'm going to complain at them for the choice of connector plane on this series.

Pros: Nothing new of considerable vavlue.

Cons: New licensing scheme locks license to physical hardware. If your computer fails, you will have to buy another copy at full price again.

Overall Review: Key only, guessing on win8 you use the key in MS's yet-another-app-store, but unlike app stores we've been using for years now, its an install-once-buy-again system. Win7 install requires hoop jumping to get download.

Pros: Nice hardware, light, seems build rather well.

Cons: Bloatware, there's a lot of it. The pre-boot setup REQUIRES accepting the Bing Bar EULA. When it finally gets to the desktop, there's a dozen windows/dialogs from all the various junkware. Comes with both McAfee and MS Live Essentials installed.... I've been uninstalling all of it for the past hour and I'm not even close to half done. Its not helping that several of the uninstallers are in Chinese.

Overall Review: A certain level of bloatware is to be expected, like the obligatory useless pre-install of either Norton or McAfee, but Asus has got several orders of magnitude above others I've unboxed recently. I like Asus hardware (love my Nexus 7), but if it takes more than another hour to remove the rest of the junk, I'm returning this thing and calling it quits on Asus.

Nothing to complain about, got what I ordered, which is always good.