Joined on 12/16/04
buying another

Pros: we love this thing. Most of our work is just using a web browser and printing in the office. We replaced a power hungry tower with one of these running ubuntu and KDE plasma. No issues, runs like a champ. amazed at how fast and power this is for its size. We are ordering another one to replace another large tower.
Cons: none worked right out of the box
Overall Review: Am buying more of these. Will continue to buy as we add employees
Great drive, Tad louder than other drives

Pros: perfect for NAS. I don't really need the AI function in the drives they sit in a UNIFI protect set up. I have the 24TB one in my home protect set up and initially it was loud, but it has become more quite since it finished it originally set up. I have 8 of the 8TB drives with no issues. 2 are cold spares. when they go in I'll order 2 more. I take the drives that are out of warranty and typically put them in our 3rd tier backup NAS systems and they seem to live forever. Technically out of "service life" but that doesn't mean I take them offline, I stick them into a lower use environment to live out their days storing old accounting stuff. Nothing as exciting as VIDEO
Cons: Louder than other NAS drives but that is common for surveillance drives in general.
Overall Review: Would totally recommend this for those with surveillance systems. Never once had an issue with them.
replacement RAID drive

Pros: Works as intended Price was right Replaced an older failed drive Fast RAID rebuild with new drive
Overall Review: had a RAID drive fail. Swapped this one in as a replacement. RAID rebuilt overnight and have had no issues since. The previous drive was over 6 years old so it was time to replace.
works

Pros: fan controller, plug in, plug in power, attach fans, move dials. Works great. I love that I can actually control fans that typically cannot be controlled well. Also love I can just shut the fan off.
Cons: none
Overall Review: will buy again
perfect for my needs

Pros: Set up and install was easy Adjustable which is awesome Super sturdy
Cons: None yet
Overall Review: Got this for my home lab. Initially I wanted an enclosed unit but decided that this is going in my home and I don't really have a major security concern so open racking is just fine. Install was a bit of a challenge for me to do solo, but I was also an idiot. I should have just mounted the top section first, then assembled each section afterward hanging from the top. The rack is super sturdy so it would have easily handled the weight of me assembling one item at a time. I do plan to add a rack mount battery backup so having a strong rack was important to me, right now it just supports all my networking switches, router, small NAS and just a really small battery backup. I have another project for a friend and will probably buy this again for his home networking set up.
Emergency purchase works great

Pros: I had a NAS drive fail. Was having a battle with the vendor and HDD manufacture about a warranty replacement. I bought this to quickly (new egg shipped it immediately) resolve the issue until I sorted things out with the manufacture and vendor. Still not sorted out after a couple of weeks of back and forth, but good news is this drive is working great.
Overall Review: Would buy it again but maybe in large sizes as I am a data storage fool :)
Mini PC rocks
We purchased this without an OS to use in our office. Currently running Ubuntu and KDE plasma and rocks for all our needs. Just for fun we installed steam and on a 1080p monitor we were able to get a solid 45fps in Borderlands 2. I'm not going to win any e-gaming events on this thing with built in graphics, but for our work stuff this is perfect. We use a web browser, libre office and some file sharing software for our work and it runs this perfectly. I will be buying more of these if not this week within the month and moving more of our stations over to this. Will buy again, very happy with this little thing.
works as intended
Works as intended, will buy again for next rack set up
work perfect, look great in my home lab