Pros: It does what it says it does (Mostly-see other thoughts). Simple to set up and use. Mine came with instructions printed on a sticker on the bottom. Overall, it works very well and the price couldn't be better if you need something with a built-in RAID controller (my server is a mini-itx board with no pci slots and no built-in raid). It has a large fan to keep your drives cool and is fairly quiet. The door on the front has a dust-catching sponge type filter.

Cons: The build quality a bit shabby, but since it does just sit there and do its job it's no a big deal. The plastic rails you screw into the drive to mount them are pretty flimsy if you find yourself swapping drives often, but they're good enough, since you probably won't be. The exterior is a strong metal (probably heavy aluminum) and is solid, however.

Overall Review: When I first got the enclosure, I hadn't gotten the drives yet, so I threw in a couple of drives I had lying around to try it out. The drives were not the same size, so I set the dip switches for JBOD mode and hooked it up via USB. Instead of showing up as one large drive, it showed up as two separate drives. I formatted each one, then hooked it up via esata. This made it show up as one large unformatted drive. I then formatted it again and hooked it up via USB again and this time it showed up as one large drive. I thought I'd see if it was possible to grow the volume by adding a drive, but doing this caused the whole thing to show up as an unformatted drive, thus destroying your data. When I got my 4x @TB drives, I set the dip switches to RAID 5 and hooked it up via esata, and it is running perfectly well. I just don't think the the JBOD implementation works as well as it should, so if you plan on getting this, make sure all the drives you put in are the same capacity and use raid.

Pros: Accepts 2133 RAM. Virtu works well. It does away with archaic connections (No IDE or legacy PCI slots. This is a good thing for most). Overclocks well with 2500k.

Cons: The north bridge heat sink is just for show. Seriously, it is just stuck on there with cheap adhesive. Comes un-stuck easily. Why is this even here?? The south bridge heat sink, however is just a metal plate with some ridges. This is probably enough, but is very hot to the touch if you're fiddling in the case a lot. The worst part is the onboard LAN went out after just a few power cycles. After installing windows, installed drivers, it worked just fine. One more reboot and it says there is no cable connected. After resetting the BIOS, and rebooting again, now it does not show any LAN at all! Tried with multiple known working cables and ports on my router. I am now using a USB>Ethernet adapter.

Overall Review: Instead of sending back for RMA, I bought a cheap rosewill PCI express ethernet card. It's cheaper than shipping for an RMA, and I don't have to completely disassemble the computer. These issues are not HUGE, but I don't think I'll be buying gigabyte again. Too bad DFI doesn't still make LanPartys :(