Pros: Functional, normal spin-up. This is my FOURTH drive that I'm using in my 2-DRIVE mirrored "Network Attached Storage" in a Linux-based NAS... The drive is not designed to do this, although it will do it. I bought the first pair in 2012... (2TB is now considered small). Purchased the last one a little over year ago. That's a good 5/6 year span running a drive without spin-down and 24/7/365 availability, well beyond the warranty.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: In both cases with the very old drives, they started throwing SMART controller errors, marking bad sectors before finally failing the array. This is normal behavior. Good Value!

Pros: Creative brand name. Wanted to like it. Intended to replace a still working SB0460 X-FI card (PCI 32bit card). Went back to the old card and the problems with the new card went away.

Cons: Experience ... Seems buggy and prone to software crashes. Might be board compatibility, not sure. Plugged into lowest PCIE_8 slot on my z68 board. Driver it up. Strike 1: In experimenting with the different profile settings, encountered logged service stopped responding in "Creative Audio Service" and it's parent "Windows Audio" (NT Services). The profile panel would go blank. Strike 2: There is a red desktop knob with with built-in microphone. I cannot use it due to feedback over the speakers I have even with all of the "CrystalVoice" smart volume, noise reductuion, acoustic echo cancellation and focus settings being used. It's basically an expensive volume knob on my desk. Strike 3: I was considering trying to troubleshoot further, but my breaking point was popping noises I get while in headphones and a maximized Chrome browser window with Adobe Flash content running. The previous card doesn't do that. Glad I didn't mail order this card and went to an actual store to buy it. See other thoughts.

Overall Review: I may be running into a strange partial compatibility issue. This card occupies the bottom-most PCIE_8 slot in an SLI PCIE_16 setup using an NF200 chip to multiplex the PCIE lanes. I DID NOT BUY THIS FROM NEWEGG. Got it from a store that 'flies' (sounds like). Been running Creative Labs hardware since the SB16 ISA cards. Loved the AWE32 back in the day. Simpler, I guess.

Pros: Installed it. Have not tried to run it.

Cons: DRM instantly kills any software review as far as I am concerned. I pay for my gaming software. I am fully aware of the problem with game cracks and perceived income to game publishers (did not say developers, I said publishers). I don't crack my games.

Overall Review: I come from a time when you the protection game software used was to ask the owner to enter a random series of characters from text book gaming manual. That was good DRM to me. I know you an PDF the same thing these days, but that was acceptable DRM to me. Annoying, but 100% available to me. If I lost the book, it was my fault. But I had control over that. If UPlay is unreachable, does the game play? Saves work? That is a rating killer for me regardless of the design, complexity, beauty, and epic story of any gaming title.

Pros: While it worked, great. I paid $30 for it at a well-known blue & gold vendor whose name rhymes with test try.

Cons: Button responsiveness quit after around 18mo. Hat switch is binary (all or nothing). Buttons labeled 5, 3, 4, 6 seem to work in Windows testing, but none of the games work with it. Imagine having ti spam a button 20x before it works. So... it's dead. The Windows 7 diags I was running had no problem telling me the flight stick was working. On a whim, I connected a gamepad and tried the same game with the pad.... ZERO problems, worked great. Plugged the Extreme 3D back in, tests fine in Windows 7 x64 devices. Tried in the game, still mostly unresponsive.

Overall Review: Outside of warranty... It was a $30 flight stick that lasted beyond the warranty about 6 months. I *might buy another one, but I really want something that will give me 2+ years of life before hardware failure. And I'm willing to pay for that.

Pros: Decent price for the screen size. Happy with my choice after filtering out the defect displays and getting ones that work.

Cons: Defect rate. Did not buy at NewEgg. Bought at TestGuy (sounds like). Same price. Glad I did. Viewing aspect, but I do sit in front if it, so does not affect me. Defect rate: Opened 7 of them, 4 had stuck/dead pixels. that is a >50% failure rate on your product.

Overall Review: I run two GTX 580s in SLI from a year 2011 build. Happy with the setup. I used a Friday evening to drive to 3 different TestGuy stores in my area. I wanted 3X monitors for my triple-head setup. The final answer, is that I have them. To the VENDOR: I ended up open 7 displays if this model to find 3 that did not have dead pixels upon unboxing from NEW. 4 of the 7 were defective. That should tell you something!!! This is why displays are THE ONE COMPONENT I never buy online. Defect rates and dead pixel policies make this a lose/lose proposition for the buyer.... especially with multiple displays. I do not accept a single dead pixel when I buy brand new. If one grows over time, fine, but not as new. I would rather pay a little more at retail and quick swap/return then pay return shipping and face the waiting time because the vendor quality assurance dept. is inoperative, as my experience clearly demonstrates. Minus 2 eggs for the defect rate. I was prepared for it, though, so I came out ahead.

Pros: Bluray + DVD movie. Decent movie.

Cons: 30? Price on the #gg.

Overall Review: I got this at \/\/@l /\/\@rt for $E|ght-t33n d0ll@rs. Two discs inside, Bluray + the DVD version (digital copy is the marketing term?). Not sure why it costs >1/3 more online.

Shipped as ordered and received. Sealed. Working. It's a replacement hard drive for a Linux RAID-1 MIRROR on a NAS. Resync Complete. It works.

I had a SATA hard drive delivered to a parcel locker over USPS... But the locker was broken into and drive stolen. Contacted the vendor to let them know what happened. Got a call a day later to confirm. Some male voice basically told me they would see what they could do and call me back... Never got called back. What they did do is discontinue the product sale. The phone number was an 877 prefix, kinda fishy.