Pros: The drive is very fast and quiet - once you enable AAM, seeks are barely noticeable and the spindle is whisper-quiet. Reliability is good, with the noteable feature of offloading the heads to a ramp (some other drives use a contact start/stop). Supports 3 modes of power management, including slowing of the spindle.

Cons: This drive contains 5 platters and 10 heads, which leads to idle power consumption of 9W. With AAM disabled, it can consume up to 14W (11W with AAM). I needed to install the drive in a fanless enclosure and it reached 55C in all the enclosures I tried. It should be fine in cases with some airflow.

Pros: Highly portable, supports digital signal over the air and through clear QAM.

Cons: The image quality is just average and does not compare well against less portable usb tuners. No hardware MPEG2 encoder, uses a software encoder to work with Vista Media Center. The card get extremely hot; on a Dell e1705, the express card slot is just above the hard drive and during operation, the drive gets very warm.

Overall Review: Overall, the card has very little advantage over compact usb tuners (the Clear QAM support being one). The temperature issue can be very problematic for certain laptops as it can affect the reliability of the hard drive.

Pros: The Quadro 6000 is a really good workstation card if you need any of the advanced features over the equivalent Geforce GPU. The major ones include: * A lot of memory + ECC support * Display synchronization across GPUs and across computers with the optional GSync card * GPU affinity so that multiple GPUs can be accessed individually in OpenGL * No artificial limits on rendering performance with very large meshes or computation with double precision * Support for quad-buffered stereo in OpenGL * Accelerated read-back with OpenGL. There are also dual copy engines so that 2 memory copy operations can run at the same time as rendering/computation. However, this is tricky to use. * Accelerated memory copies between GPUs (tricky to implement)

Cons: The performance for applications that don't use Quadro features can be lower than the equivalent Geforce. For example, raytracing with NVIDIA OptiX is significantly slower than with the Geforce GTX 480. Quadro SLI only works on a couple of certified workstations from Dell, HP and Lenovo. It will not work with any consumer motherboard.

Pros: Cheap, burned discs seem reliable

Cons: On NEC ND-6650A (laptop drive) with the newest firmware, the discs can be burned only at 2.4X and 4X

Overall Review: The discs are rated at 16X, and if they work at that speed, then they are a good deal. In my case, the limited speed is not a big deal.