Pros: This is a non-blocking (i.e. bandwidth between any pair of port is independent of other pair), full duplex 5 port Gigabit switch with nice sturdy metallic construction and supports jumbo frame support. There are 2 LED per port, one green (Gigabit/s) and one orange (100Mbit/s) to identify port speed. There's a green power LED as well. It connects flawlessly with laptops, desktops, and other ethernet switches. It does not heat up, stays lukewarm even when all ports are operational.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I opened up the switch and found an ASIC on which a black heatsink was glued on to. The five connectors are grouped into 2 groups, one group with 4 connectors and another with 1 connector. I tested the switch with Linux desktops, Windows 7 desktop, and a Macbook Pro Thunderbolt ethernet. I initiated file transfers from the laptop to /dev/zero of a linux desktop. The speed was 112MByte/sec. Simultaneously I transferred files from Windows desktop to another Linux desktop. There was no effect whatsoever in speed of the two parallel transfers. The switch is similar in size to a 3Com 5 port desktop Gigabit ethernet switch.

Pros: The router is a Piano black cylindrical device with a high WAF, which is a very good Applesque design and can be a conversation starter. The router also does not get too hot and remains slightly warm when operational. The WAN / internet LED is a smart light in the sense that it senses an actual connection to the Internet and not just a cabled plugged into an ethernet port. The router web interface seemed to have an inactivity logout timer which is a good thing if the window is left on by mistake on a shared computer. All the clients TCP / UDP sessions are visible under the Internet Sessions menu of the router and is helpful for debugging and security audits. With QoS enabled and with a simultaneous continuous upload session to my cloud server, latency increased just a bit to 17ns and download speeds remained at 10Mbps.

Cons: A minor irritation of this router is that almost all modifications require a lengthy reboot session of the order of 40 - 60 secs. Sometimes the router would not behave as intended after reboot and would drop connections and would have to be reboot once more. For some unknown reason one of my mbp shows up as 802.11a device @ 243Mbps in the Wifi status page, when infact I had setup the 5GHz Wifi Access Point to work only as 802.11n. In the WPS menu with PIN option there is a typo and "within is printed as winth" With automatic upload speed detection, WiFi security is not enabled immediately at bootup and some clients can connect to the router at that time without WPA / WEP. Security is enabled after a minute or so and the clients then disconnect and reconnect, which could be an annoyance and a minor security issue. WiFi allows guest SSID, but bandwidth control is not available for guest SSID. QoS automatic bandwidth calculation did not work well. It calculated my upload speed as 3.3Mbps while it's actually 1Mbps, as advertised and tested through speedtest.net. There are no LED for the ethernet ports to either indicate connectivity or the speed like 100/1000Mbps. The antennae are integrated within the device which seems to reduce the range.

Overall Review: There are two LED at the front; one for power and another for showing internet connectivity. Both LED can change colors form orange to green. The WAN / internet LED is a smart light in the sense that it senses an actual connection to the Internet and not just a cabled plugged into an ethernet port. At the back there are 5 gigabit ethernet ports, one for WAN and 4 for LAN connectivity. There's a power switch and WPS, reset buttons. The router is powered by a 120V/230V wall wart with slightly short power cable. The web interface is the usual DLink orange/ grey interface with additional menu items tailored for this specific router. To test Wifi the router was setup at a height of 3.5 feet from ground and the laptop (Macbook pro retina display 15" also kept at similar height). I used 5Ghz Wifi Channel 36 as well as 149. It works well with a Macbook pro retina, A macbook pro 15", and a mobile device viz. Nokia N9. WiFi throughput between a wired gigabit server and my Macbook Pro 802.11n using the 5GHz band ranged from 50Mbps to 80Mbps, which is marginal at best. During the test no other device used the channel. WAN ethernet port supports Gbps, and the router claims to support true gigabit hardware routing. It may be a great feature for extremely fast internet connection, but with my 10Mbps down / 1Mbps up connection, it disabled QoS bandwidth shaping and SPI firewall and produced no perceivable difference in normal web browsing use. With true gigabit routing enabled, QoS traffic shaping was disabled. To test the performance as a home user, I started a file upload session to a web server and simultaneously used speedtest.net to check my bandwidth and latency. Latency increased quite a bit from 11ns to 300ns, speed of opening webpages slowed down, even though download bandwidth stayed at 10Mbps. I would thus favor QoS over true gigabit routing for my type of xx MBps internet connection. A cat6 cable instead of a Cat5e could have been bundled with the router considering it's a gigabit router.

Pros: I bought 6x ASROCK vega 56 cards for gpu computing and mining workloads. Of these, 4x had Hynix HBM2 and 2x had Samsung HBM2. I have OC the Hynix cards memory between 925 - 950 MHz, Samsung between 890 - 940 MHz before errors occurred. So both the variants have hit / miss depending on your luck. To me it seems that Hynix memory has tighter timings, because the mining hashrate at same memory clock speed is higher compared to Samsung card.

Cons: The ASROCK sticker and the Serial number stickers tend to peel off after few days of use.

Pros: Loads of HBM2 for GPU intensive renders Mines Ethereum at 42MH/s (windows) and 40 MH/s (Linux using rocm) More stable than RX VEGA 64 and VEGA 56 Undervolting in Windows can lower power usage

Cons: More power consumption than RX VEGA, which makes the card stable. No undervolting support in LINUX!!!! (pp table is broken in linux driver) $$$$ is too expensive for what it is.

Pros: Simultaneous Dual band, supports both 2.4, 5.8GHz bands. Sleek looking, with integrated antennae (good WAF). Guest network with web-login (2.4GHz only) Easily access router my typing ( myrouter.local ) in web browser address bar Seems stable (works without reboot for a few weeks) with a network of 10 devices including laptops, desktops, smartphones, printers, etc. Gigabit LAN.

Cons: One of the most difficult routers for the novice users to set up. The recommended way to setup with DVD is obsolete (None of my home computers have spinning disks / drives anymore) Menu is extremely complicated (Dyndns under security menu??) LAN IP addresses are 10.211.XXX.XXX (Seriously??) Sometimes accessing the router through web interface throws a "Bad Gateway error", and takes a good one minute to load Changing DNS servers is tucked away under local network menu instead of WAN menu. Changing some settings (like something under QoS menu or changing DNS server for e.g. )will crash the router and it will need a hard reboot. QoS implementation is a mess (reduced the speed of my 20MBps Internet to 12Mbps using both router's speedtest app as well as on my laptop) This router does not yet have a killer app/feature that distinguishes it from the rest of the simultaneous dual band products.

Overall Review: This router seems like a work in progress, with Linksys (Now Belkin) moving towards cloud accessibility of its routers and have started selling additional router apps. Most of the important settings are tucked away under random menu names. QoS needs a lot of polishing and is still beta IMO. Sometimes the 5.8GHz wireless SSID shows up as MarvellAP8X. Hopefully Linksys will fix these pending issues soon with a well tested firmware or allow open-source firmwares.

Pros: This is a nice looking, (a good combo of glossy (on the sides) and matte on top / bottom) External USB 3 drive. Saw decent transfer rates between 50MB/s to 110MB/s when backing up data on it. Can stand both horizontally and vertically without any external attachments, which is a good feature that many external drives lack.

Cons: Slightly bulkier than other 2TB external hdds.

Overall Review: was pretty silent. usual usb3.0 data cable. an adapter needs to be plugged in to supply power.