Pros: The only Mini-ITX motherboard I could find that had dual NIC's and six 6Gb/s SATA ports. I was looking for a mini-itx motherboard to build a compact, power efficient Hyper-v server for home. I compared every mini-itx motherboard on Newegg and this one had everything I needed; Drivers for Windows Server 2012 R2, dual gigabit NIC's and 6 SATA ports. I could've bought a cheaper desktop motherboard, used add-in cards to get the extra LAN or SATA ports and hacked the drivers for Server 2012 but using Intel's onboard generally offers better performance and effiency compared to 3rd party chipsets. I'm using it with 16GB of Kingston Hyper-X RAM, a Core i5 4570S and a 120GB SSD in a CHENBRO SR30169T2-250 mini-itx case. Idle power consumption is at 29 watts. With 10 TB of disk space (2 x 4TB, 1 x 2TB drives) idle power is 42 watts. I compared this to a GIGABYTE GA-H87N mini-itx desktop motherboard with the same components and the ASRock consumes 15 fewer watts at idle.

Cons: Latest 1.80 BIOS caused CPU and System fans to run at full speed all of the time. I was advised by ASRock support to update the BMC firmware in order to fix fan speed issue. Although it took them 24 hours to respond they were very helpful in addressing the issue.

Overall Review: This motherboard is expensive compared to some other mini-itx boards but if you're looking to build a server it's cost can be justified because it's more power effient and offers more features.

Pros: The quality of the hardware components seem to be very good. Unfortunately the UEFI BIOS makes this board practically unusable if you ever need to go into change settings.

Cons: Where to begin. I purchased two of these motherboards both came with the latest firmware, which at this time is F4. Upon booting up, the motherboards would freeze at the UEFI BIOS screen or not display anything at all. After much wasted time trying different things and researching I'm eventually able to get into the UEFI BIOS on one computer. I had to unplug everything but 1 DIMM, keyboard, mouse and move VGA to PCIe slot 2. Ok so the next time I try to enter the UEFI BIOS the system freezes again at intial bios screen. This time I discover that I have to unplug the mouse and it let me in the BIOS. 3rd time I try it the system locks up again. I try clearing the CMOS but not go. Then I move video card to PCIe slot 1 and it doesn't freeze. Oh and the mouse can be plugged in ??? VERY FRUSTRATING!! This is the story with both motherboards. They are extremely unreliable, flaky and unpredictable when it comes to trying to access UEFI BIOS. Once you finally get past the BIOS issue the system will load and run windows just fine. But if you every need to get into UEFI again. It's a huge frustrating ordeal of trial and error and to add insult to injury the Clear CMOS jumper doesnt work correctly. You have to pull the battery and wait about 5 minutes. But doing that doesn't really fix anything anyway. Needless to say both of these motherboards are going back. I don't know how many hours I've already wasted with the silliness. And now I have to deal with refunds and getting new motherboards and reassembling everything. I have used Gigabyte products in the past without issue but this issue has left me very disappointed with them and I will most likely NOT purchase any of Gigabyte products again.

Pros: One of the few mini-itx cases in this size that can hold 6 hard drives and the only one with hot-swappable drive bays. I needed a small mini-itx case that could hold at least 4 3.5" drives and 1 SSD for a compact Hyper-v server. I compared every mini-itx case on Newegg and this one came out on top in price / features. After receiving it I was happy to see that the materials and build quality are very good. Most of the other mini-itx cases on Newegg that can hold this many drives are physically larger. This case if very compact and surprising very easy to work on. It uses a standard atx power supply and 120 mm fan. Air flow design is simple and effective. Both stock fans run whisper quiet. I'm using this with a ASRock E3C226D2I Mini ITX Server Motherboard, 16 GB RAM and a i5 4570S, 120GB SSD. Idle power is 29 watts. With 10 TB of disk space (2 x 4TB, 1 x 2TB drives) idle power is 42 watts.

Cons: It would be nice if the front USB ports were USB 3.0 insted of 2.0

Pros: I replaced an Antec power supply with this SeaSonic Gold Certified PS in an existing home server and my idle power consumption dropped by 15 watts. I also swapped out 6 smaller hard drives to two 4TB green drives and cut idle power by another 40 watts.

Cons: none so far.