Joined on 03/29/07
Solid
Pros: Simple install. No drivers. WORKS unlike so many these days. Fits my case (Antec 300 with no 3.5" adapter).
Cons: Limited hookups, would like some 1394's or eSata.
Overall Review: Can't complain, pay the price, you'll be happy. AFT also has a 3.5" version that I bought for a friend and he's VERY satisfied with it.
Not "All In One" solution
Pros: As far as keeping your computer clean, it does a nice job. If you've got Vista or 7 and have the side bar active, it has a nice little "red to green" meter to let you know to push a button. It is light on the OS and doesn't bog things down... sorta (see cons)
Cons: The anti virus is a little cumbersome. On my wife's laptop, I wound up switching to Microsoft Security Essentials. Iolo will start a scan right when you're in the middle of some task resulting in slow performance. Also (and this is the main reason I'm writing this review) the "Search and Recover" is a piece of junk. Search and recover is VERY PICKY (by their own admition) about what it will discover. The result of this is that when I plugged in a HDD for a client that needed recovery (previously formatted), it said that there were NO (0, zip, zilch) files to be recovered. NONE! When I used "Pareto", it found about 60,000 files and many of them were in perfect condition. Happy client. Also I've never had Drive medic help one bit.
Overall Review: I enjoy using Iolo Pro because it has good uses, but I think for the heavy duty "rubber meets the road" stuff that matters like saving your computer from a virus, or recovering data, or fixing your MBR or restoring a corrupted OS, you're better off shopping around and using multiple items.
Is this price correct???
Pros: Extremely well worth it. This is easily a $1000 computer. Monitor is SUPER BRIGHT and crisp. Runs super fast and smooth.
Cons: for the price none... Although I wonder why any computers ship with HDD's anymore as opposed to SSD's.
Overall Review: I upgraded mine to SSD. It's easy using "backup and recovery (windows 7)". and it is cheap, $60 for 240GB. All I need.
Works
Pros: Haven't tried the erase or copy feature. worked right away.
Cons: The devise copied 1TB from computer to drive on this devise and it took 3 hours... Started off at 120MB/s, after 2 minutes it dropped to 10MB/s. Could have been usb3 pci card, could have been drive... still disappointing.
Overall Review: Eh.
Works as needed
Pros: 4 extra USB 3. Easy physical install.
Cons: Eh, it took some time to get the drivers to install... The disc did not work right away and Rosewill does not provide drivers online.
Overall Review: I'm glad it works, but it is just lazy.
AWESOME AMAZING
Pros: SUPER FAST! This card took my laptop and turned it from clunk to hunk! (along with a RAM upgrade). Once the Windows 7 dots start flying across the black boot up screen, it flashes to the desktop faster than you've ever seen. Also get's a 7.9 on Windows experience scale.
Cons: SSD's of this era are still susceptible to power issues IF you disconnect power suddenly. ALWAYS shut down properly.
Overall Review: Newer SSD's are getting better with some features such as encryption and power resilience. But IMO, this is still a very good SSD with performance that matches higher cost discs. Also it's worth noting, I upgraded 2 computers to SSD's and 1 of them is a Core i platform and another is an older Pentium platform. The performance of your SSD will be GREATLY effected by the age of the technology that you're plugging it into. Rule of thumb. If your computer uses DDR2 or older, you will not really notice any/much performance increase. DDR3 or later is where you will notice significant performance increases due to new technology in your mother board (IE getting rid of the FSB and utilizing QPI). Bandwidths are wide open to handle this super speed transfer rate.