Pros: Drive comes with a 2.5 > 3.5 mounting adapter. Setup with native AHCI SATA Mode. I'm using an older MB (GA-EX58-UD5), it only supports SATA II (3GB/s). However the drive is clearly perceptably fast once Windows and drivers are all installed. Scored 7.8 on Window 7 Ult x64.

Cons: Price. Still wishing the cost per GB would drop so I can get a bigger main drive. Also if it were to fail I'm not left with such an expensive paper weight.

Overall Review: I'm using an older mother board that supports upto SATA II (3Gbit/s). Core i7 980x 12GB (trip channel) Giga-byte GA-EX58-UD5 Plextor M3 PX-512

Pros: Supports upto eight drives, fits in small area, sliline profile. Supports RAIDs 0, 10, 5, 50, 6, 50. Nice and fast (when raid group and partiton all correctly configured)

Cons: Comes with no battary backup mode (add another $192 for this.) Runs crazy hot. I added a heatsink fan to mine, but at the expense of losing an expansion slot. Intels version of the management software is ugly. Use the LSI version. Ugrading the firmware needs to be done in release order. I was unable to jump directly to the latest one. It fails citing corrupt image, but it is really that I was trying to go from release version of BIOS to latest. Upgrading firmware sequentially got around this.

Overall Review: Lower the price and include the battery backup module.

Pros: This case is huge. Bigger than most people would even entertain. However I love this case. Not only does it look great but it is really well thought out and the finish is fantastic. If you were ever evicted from your home you would always have a place to live.

Cons: Don't buy this if your space is limited or you like your computer to be the size of a Mac Book Air.

Overall Review: This case is for people like me. The all round IT guy and general computer enthusiast. My company uses this workstation as a real work horse (and perhaps some gaming). Consequently it is full of stuff. This case makes it real easy to keep things neat, tidy, cool and quite.

Pros: I've been using a Ceton PCI-E Infini TV card. I had issues with this card locking onto the OOB. Decided to check out this three tuner CableCard capable network attached box and so glad I did. Plugged it in, ran through the setup and it just worked. Ah....

Cons: I think the low level administrivative and diagnostic programs could be improved. (But this does not effect the fuction of the device when working normally)

Overall Review: Perhaps one more tuner so we'd have four tuners per the one M-Card cable card like the Centon has.

Pros: I purchased my card about a month before they dropped the price from $400 to $250. Not a gripe,… well maybe a little. I was really excited to get this card. I was upgrading my two Hauppauge HVR 2250 since at around this time Comcast had just started removing the analog channels and the ClearQAM digital channels were dwindling in numbers as well. The Ceton card has this feature that I love and that is the ability to network the TV tuners. I used this feature and was very happy that it was available. However the experience of owning this card is not all nice. The physical install and driver\software setup was very straight forward. Setting up the tuner so it is available in media center was also straight forward. The issues started when the Comcast guy tried to pair the Cablecard. The Centon diagnostic app indicated that OOB was not locked. OOB is the ‘Out Of Band’ tuner, a dedicated system level fifth tuner I’m led to understand, that tunes into a frequency listening for

Cons: Comcast field techs are not well prepared to deal with a customer using a PC as their set-top box. Too many unknowns for them which means the PC becomes their excuse for any issues.

Overall Review: Can't wait for the engineers at Ceton to make the hardware really robust to wide and varied signal qualities, improve the diagnostic checks and improve diagnostic feedback so both the customer and Comcast field techs have a clue to what the problem is.

Pros: For the Micro ATX form factor this is an incredible deal. 8GB for $89.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: RAM has heat spreaders which only adds to the stabilty of something that runs cool to begin with. Also has a lifetime warrenty.