Pros: Burned 20 discs so far, and no coasters. I've always loved Ridata - cheaper than the competition, and more reliable. I bought these discs despite the occasional low reviews because I've had such good experience with them before, and I'm glad I did.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I'm skeptical that the burning problems are problems with the discs, because it seems like any particular buyer either has no problems or else lots of problems. If there were manufacturing defects, you'd expect everyone to have a moderate amount of problems. Perhaps these discs are less compatible with older style burners...?

Pros: Good look and good features.

Cons: Too few SATA and rear USB ports. More importantly, the board was mildly buggy from the start. On startup didn't identify that memory was in dual-channel and couldn't see the SATA drives. Updated BIOS and these problems went away, but after install there are periodic instabilities; 1/3 of USB insertions result in BSOD and sound intermittently is static or dead. Confirmed no driver or other hardware issues and problems remain upon reformat and reinstall, so RMAing for the same.

Overall Review: Probably just got unlucky on a pretty good board. Will review its replacement.

Pros: None

Cons: Windows BSODed while installing -- ran memtest and the errors were through the roof. A housemate coincidentally had bought the exact same RAM, so I switched them out, and no errors. Definitely the RAM.

Overall Review: Memtested both sticks and actually both were bad. One was very, very, very bad and the other threw errors but only a few. Surprised to get two bad sticks. But statistically this RAM is good so I'm RMAing for the same.

Pros: Lots of storage, low price, and most importantly, LOWEST FAILURE RATE OF ANY 2 TB DRIVE OUT THERE. Even though other 2 TB HDs have 4 eggs, just check the reviews; for the WD that tops NewEgg's "Best Ratings" search, 52% give it 5 eggs, 14% give it 4, and 9% give it 3. This one rates at 70 / 10 / 5, and probably lost additional eggs because people are -- not smart -- and don't like the 5400 RPM. I've purchased 3 of these so far. SMART scans show all 3 of them completely free of errors. One of them has been a storage drive for around 5 months, and it's doing great. Other two have been in play for about a month and are still flawless.

Cons: If you want to put two of these in RAID 0 and put your OS on them, you're -- not smart --. These are for storage, and they're great for that.

Overall Review: The best 2 TB drive on the market.

Pros: I picked this drive because it was the only 1.5 - 2 TB drive that seemed to be reasonably reliable. After a week of ownership it's performed perfectly; passed SMART error scanning, formatted and copied 500 GB of data without a glitch. Transfer speeds are almost identical to my 7200 RPM 500 GB and 1 TB drives. If it gets glitchy at any point in the future I'll post another review.

Cons: None. It'll be nice when the price of the 2TB goes down.

Pros: When it's running without problems, fantastic board. Quick as lightning. Ran it with a Q9300 processor and 2x2GB RAM at 1066 and 2x250GB HDs in RAID 0 and a nVidia 9800GTX, and the scroll-bar that shows when Vista is loading would only scroll 5x before I got my desktop.

Cons: I'm on my second one, and they've both been REALLY inconsistent. It's ridiculously frustrating, and I've been tearing my rig apart for testing at LEAST once a month for the past 7 months, but usually more often than that. It shuts off without warning (my PSU is stable), it won't hold a RAID 0 array (my HDs are fine), and it won't post when I have my Logitech game controllers plugged in. It'll get sluggish and take literally 25 scrolls of the loading bar to load when it gets "in these moods", instead of the 5 I mention above. Some of these problems I got on one mobo, some on the other; the only common factor was that neither would sustain a RAID 0 array, and in fact both had SATA ports that seemed to tank over time. Over the past 24 hours mobo #2 degenerated until it no longer even recognizes the hard drives are there, and locks up while trying to boot from the recovery disk that it's booted from fine in somewhat better days. All I want is a stable usable desktop. Aargh!

Overall Review: The third board had better work, or else I'm going to need an Anger Management class. But even if it works perfectly, it won't give me these 7 months of my life back.