Pros: Wheeeee! Wheeeeeeeeheeeeee! *8-) Speed/$ off the chart.

Cons: Dealing with the envy of your geek friends?

Overall Review: The letter at the end (A or P) is Active or Passive. From the box: "Active or 1U Passive Thermal Solution" This intel-designed thermal solution is intended for use in mulitple chassis configurations: * With fan installed: 3U and above rack-mount and pedestal chassis that *do not provide ducted airflow* to the thermal solution. * With fan removed: 1U rack-mount chassis." The other SKU (ending in P) is the Passive Thermal Solution: "This intel-designed thermal solution is intended for use in 2U and above rack-mount and pedestal chassis that *provide ducted aifrlow* to the thermal solution."

Pros: Works great. Can hotswap if: a) your controller card supports it b) your operating system supports it

Cons: None

Overall Review: I run linux. I have three of these. With an older Promise 1st gen Sata card I can't hotswap. With a regular intel motherboard raid I can. I just unmount the drive and they are synced automatically. I can then swap the drive and mount them again. Nice.

Pros: Cheap. Well built.

Cons: If you want to use a non-supermicro motherboard, you need to order new front-panel cables (someone else has posted the part numbers). Secondly, if that motherboard has audio drivers then make sure you have a dremel. Dremels rule. :-)

Overall Review: I thought about cutting a hole in the top and mounting a regular CPU heatsink fan, giving it a muscle-car-with-super-charger look, but then I realized that would just be silly.

Pros: Small, light, *PINK*. Runs web, gmail, skype (built in speakers and microphone). Why buy a PDA?

Cons: Its not fast, and requires a little patience - and faith.

Overall Review: If you are a windows user you'll keep thinking "oh no its crashed again" - but, no, its not windows, its just a little slow. Almost relaxing.

Pros: Very sturdy. Good handles. Comes with a 5-slot SATA enclosure that is usually the same price as this entire chassis! I am extremely happy with the easy of installation and features.

Cons: Not really a con, but *read the specs*: this chassis will not take an EATX motherboard. You are limited to a standard ATX no bigger than 12x10. *It says so right in the specs*. This is a little limiting, but supermicro make a great 12x10 5100 chipset server mobo.

Overall Review: The newegg link to the manufacturer is a broken and the iStar site isn't much better. Its basically this chassis with the raid chassis added: http://www.istarusa.com/rackmount_chassis/dstorm/rack_dvr/4u/d-400l-7.aspx I don't normally buy a chassis unless I can be sure that it is easy to install/swap parts. I do a lot of that. This time I took a chance because I just wanted a cheap case to put in a rack and forget about. As it turned out, this case was extremely well made and designed. The drive cages were simple to remove (4 screws each) making everything else easy. I now have a supermicro X7DCL-i with 2xXeons in it.

Pros: Its an intel board with an intel chipset. Best driver support. Best reliability. Great price. Can run Server OS no problem (I've been running Windows Server 2008 on it).

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I bought this for stability and reliability. I haven't tried overclocking it.