Pros: I bought this card to replace an eVGA card I had that blew out its capacitors. This card works great under Ubuntu Linux and I was able to turn several of the games I have there up to max settings with no perceivable slow down. I also bought it to try the bathroom demo for Blender and it worked great for that too. The price of this card for its performance are fantastic.

Cons: Having to plug in more and more power receptors into video cards that are already plugged into the motherboard is kinda annoying. I know this isn't a problem with just this card, its more of an industry mentality.

Overall Review: Great, now I have a reason for resubscribing to WoW to test this baby out. Thanks a lot XFX.

Pros: Looks neat. The drive case material seems sturdy.

Cons: On the first day that I tried to use this drive, it started having IO errors. I tried the drive on 3 different computers with the same results. Since this was going to be a removable backup drive, this is not something that can tolerated. The base, while it might look cool, feels a bit too flimsy for what I wanted to use the drive for. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who was going to move it around a lot.

Overall Review: I'm getting tired of hard drive errors. The hard drive manufacturers really need to stop jerking us around at our own expense. I'm the sysadmin for a web hosting company and have had way to many hard drive failures from reliable brands after only weeks or months of operation recently. And these were supposed to be high quality drives. It really wastes time and money for everyone. I think they aren't using enough quality control.

Pros: Proven reliability

Cons: They don't make them all this good

Overall Review: So probably in my life I've owned at least 200 hard drives and worked as a sysadmin in enough places and for long enough to bring the total up close to 2,000 drives. I probably have 30 of these bad boys and most last at least 5 years but I've had some for 7 or 8 years running continuously. When it's 2019 and I pull a drive out and I see a manufacture date of 2011 I just laugh and smile and think what magic dust did they put into these drives?

Pros: This drive lasted a lot longer than I expected based on what I used it for.

Cons: None

Overall Review: So back in the day I was running a large server with many cheap virtual machines on it. Because customers liked to buy the lowest amount of RAM, it meant that they would start using swap memory and we'd have disk contention issues. So I popped this drive in the server and moved everyone's swap space over and it fixed the disk contention problems, while giving people reasonably fast swap. I thought that I'd end up running the drive down quickly but the disk ended up lasting a few years until I retired that server and as far as I know the disk still works.

Pros: Worked well when it did.

Cons: One of the sticks failed after 15 months.

Overall Review: About 15 months into ownership, one of the sticks started having bit errors which caused crashes randomly in Linux. I ran a memory tester and found that indeed one of them had errors. I have bought patriot memory before and since and haven't had trouble with them until now. Maybe this will be the only time. One can hope.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: This phone is not really a VoIP phone that uses the SIP protocol, so you won't be able to hook it up to something like an Asterisk system.