Pros: I'm the IT Director at a school district and purchased two of these to run PFsense with CARP in failover. Our old server died, and these have more than enough power for our 10mb connection (and should handle any future upgrades). When looking at the utilization, it is rarely ever over 1%. They are small, light, cheap, and work fantastic (with Pfsense 2.0--there are potential problems setting it up with any version higher than that). Heck, just a dual nic PCIE card can cost almost as much as this barebones system.

Cons: When running anything higher than PFSense 2.0, (I tried 2.1 and 2.2) the display is impossible to use. It stops refreshing properly and it makes it nearly impossible to see what you are doing/installing. If you can fumble your way through it, however, it will install fine. Alternatively, you can probably install it using a terminal connection with a serial connection.

Overall Review: Worth it just for the dual nic.

Pros: Decent access point. The Cloud Command tool is very convenient. Cloud Command can Be removed via firmware update if you don't want to pay the fees.

Cons: The selling point for this AP is its "Cloud Command" tool that can manage all of your APs from the web, without paying for an expensive controller based solution. HOWEVER--this Cloud Command tool costs $100 PER ACCESS POINT after the first year. If you don't plan on paying $100 per year, there are better APs out there in the same price range.

Pros: It's fanless, which is awesome. It can also be powered via a usb port, which is kind of interesting. No additional hardware required--just slap an OS on. Install of windows 8.1 was very easy--just use rufus to create a UEFI Computer boot disk using your 8.1 ISO, and make sure it is fat32. I'm using a bluetooth keyboard and a low profile nano usb 64gb drive to store everything else on. Runs websites, office, and general programs quite well. It's portable, and easy to take with you wherever you go, should you so feel like it.

Cons: The drivers on a DVD, so you have to either use copy everything to a USB drive (and you have to use the root of the drive, or the installer breaks). If you are doing an install over usb, then you only have one usb slot for a keyboard or mouse, which is kind of annoying. You can use a usb hub, but I didn't have one handy. For windows installation, you have to use the keyboard, but the driver installation CD requires a mouse click, so you have to switch to a mouse for that.

Overall Review: Overall, it was a great deal at $99. There are plenty of uses for a little device like this.

Pros: It has the right configuration, and it is affordable.

Cons: After plugging it in to a server, it wouldn't detect. I thought it could be a compatibility issue with the server so I tried it on a home computer. The system will not even turn on once you plug the card into the molex connector. Unplug the power to the card and it'll turn on fine. It's definitely the card.

Overall Review: None of these PCIe cards from any manufacturer get consistently good ratings, this one was at 4/5 stars so I thought I'd give it a shot. It seems like the most recent batch may be defective, because the last few reviews have all had major issues.

Pros: Plenty of 3.5 bays -- 8 in total. There is room for two fans at the front of the case to provide airflow directly to these drives, with one fan included. The drives are lined up in a way that provides excellent air flow. I went from a Cooler Master Cosmos case to this and my drive temps dropped from 60c+ to 38-43. While the cosmos case is a little sexier, this one is way more practical, especially for so many drives (8x2tb) The case is very sturdy and rigid compared to some of the other cases I've used. It is very quiet and Fractal Designs have added quite a bit to aid in sound dampening (foam covers for unused fan slots, foam covered sides, rubber grommets on the drive mounts etc) The case is primarily tooless. The cable management is quite nice.

Cons: Only comes with one front fan--but most people won't be mounting all 8 drives, so this shouldn't effect them much. I would have appreciated another 1/8 to 1/4 inch of space between the motherboard plate and the back side, just to provide a bit more room for the cables. It can be a tight fit when you have so many SATA cables and whatnot.

Overall Review: Great case. It isn't super flashy, but I like that. I got it primarily because I wanted something with 8x 3.5 bays that would keep the drives acceptably cool. I usually go with Lian Li or coolermaster, but this case fit the bill better than any of those for this particular function.