Pros: 1. Drive bays have no rests: This is a huge pro for this case as this was designed for modular enclosures, not single drives. 2. Does not come with internal SATA enclosures: Invest in a pair of good enclosures like I did. I highly recommend the Netstore NS160S or NS170S. 3. No front fans are a plus: This is a server case and is designed for drive enclosures. Front fans would prohibit and block hot swap functions. 4. Power supply mount: Allows for regular or redundant power supplies to be fitted. 5. No included power supply is great; I can add my own preferred power supply and not have to worry about tossing one out. 6. Decent fan rear, although I replaced it with a better one. 7. What arrived what exactly was shown in the picture. There is nothing missing. 8. No issues with motherboard holes matching up. 9. Great Price for especially for the quality. Solid build. 10. Looks great.

Cons: No instructions

Overall Review: Please ignore the other ratings as this is a server case is designed for a specific purpose (hot swap enclosures) and the other raters didn’t quite grasp the real goodness in this case. Get this case. You will find it to be a great server case and a great deal.

Pros: Good performance, good feature set.

Cons: This board does NOT support PCI-E RAID cards correctly like my LSI 9261-8i. The PCI-E bus runs at only half the 2.2 spec speed and causes issues for PCI-E RAID cards. This is a limitation in the P/H55 chipset it seems.

Overall Review: I was hoping to use this in a home media server, no such luck.

Pros: I needed to upgrade my existing discrete HTPC card for a bit more ability with the latest codecs. This chip looks to be a great use for that. Great that we finally have some decent low profile cards to choose from. Nice that it's a true single slot cooler, but that also leads to the Cons below.

Cons: The cooler fan is much too loud for HTPC use. Even when under moderate load it's very audible. Even the wife notices which is bad. I've tried a number of the software tools to quiet the fan and they do work to an extent at the high end, but then make the low RPM speed even higher than default. So you end up with less noise on the high end and more noise on the low end. In the end this card is not going to stay in this machine. I may try and pull a dual fan setup from an older nVidia low profile card and replace this one. At least the noise from that fan is tolerable.

Pros: I've been looking around for a laptop replacement for about six months now. I wanted a Sandy bridge chipset along with a discrete graphics card that was good enough to play games a little bit when needed and a good enough CPU to last a few years, but the laptop also had to be small enough to move around easily too. This MSI laptop is THE best combination of all of those factors is this price range. I've run this laptop though CPU and GPU torture tests and there are no throttling issues unlike the Acers. MSI seems to have installed the heat sinks correctly. The laptop does have an actual Intel wireless NIC and Bluetooth stack which is nice. The wired Realtek NIC is Gb too. The screen is acceptable and the price is fair given the components used.

Cons: I don't like the fact that the fan is on all of the time. Granted it's fairly quiet but none the less it's a negative in my mind. The keys seem like they could have been made a bit bigger given the room, they do feel a tiny bit small.

Overall Review: I've looked at the recent Acer laptops along with other brands and all of them had tradeoffs of one form or another. (the Acers have massive throtting issues due to heat) This is still the best bet you'll find.

Pros: When it works, it’s fantastic. Great read and write speeds with RAID 5.

Cons: I’ve had this card in four different motherboards trying to find a good match.

Overall Review: First motherboard was an Intel G41 chipset board. It worked in that board, but since the PCI-e slots were only 1.1 the speed was not up to what it could be. The second board was an Intel G55 chipset board. In this board it would work fine up until you hit the RAID stripe size, then it would jump randomly from huge read speeds to almost nothing. It seems that all P/H55 chipsets only run at half the PCI-e spec. This causes major problems with this card. The third board was an Intel H67 chipset. The motherboard would not even post with the LSI card in. Stay far away from H/P67 chipsets and any RAID cards. The fourth (and final) motherboard I’m trying is actually one on the compatibility list. SUPERMICRO MBD-X8STE-O I have high hopes for success with this board. My advice, be very careful what motherboard you pair this card with.

Pros: Good performance, good feature set. I love the UEFI.

Cons: This board does NOT support PCI-E RAID cards like my LSI 9261-8i. The motherboard won't even post. Thus far no ASRock P67 board supports PCI-E RAID cards. Maybe a flaw in the chipset or BIOS? Don't even think about putting anything other than a video card in the 16x slot. But with onboard video, it’s totally a wasted slot, why did they even bother?

Overall Review: I was hoping to use this in a home media server, no such luck.