Pros: I had four 2TB WD Reds in a Sans Digital external enclosure running RAID 5 that was sitting on top of a mid-tower and underneath an HP LaserJet in a house that burned for 36 hours. The heat caused the HP LaserJet above and the plastic in the USB ports of the mid-tower below to start melting. If that were not enough thermal stress, the fire department pour 250,000 gallons on the house and all this happened during a sub-zero winter. In other words, the drives got a really nice heat treatment: they were annealed an elevated temperature for an extended period of time and then rapidly quenched to below freezing. Anyways, four 2TB WD Reds initially survived the fire. After about 6 weeks one began to fail. I have been using the other three drives for over three months now and it is clear that they have totally survived. So despite all the DOA/RMA issues with these drives, there is a level of reliability with them that is significant too.

Cons: Frankly, my beef with these drives is the performance. I replaced 640GB WD Blacks with these 2TB WD Reds. I did not expect to see much of a difference because I am only using FireWire-800 (not USB-3.0, eSATA or Thunderbolt), which I would have thought would have been the limiting factor... it wasn't. The performance took a very noticeable hit and playing HD content seems to require a couple seconds of buffering. Although I RMA'd my Red dead from the fire, I actually replaced it with a 2TB Black.

Overall Review: The performance of Reds is not good enough for a mildly demanding individual peripheral storage user... let alone multiple users in an NAS environment. In some situations WD should be completely ignored when they say things like you shouldn't use Blacks for RAID. On the other hand, Sans Digital makes some beastly Mack Truck enclosures.....

Pros: This flash drive is constructed with a rubberized material on the housing which seems very durable.

Cons: The idea that this device would be accepted by any military is absurd. I do not care if it happens to met some vibration standard. The interface cap easily comes off the end, gets lost and then exposes the device to damage.

Overall Review: I was expecting more from A-DATA.

Pros: WB Black's are consistently found to be the highest performance "pro-sumer" level drives on the market and the 640 GB model seems to be better than the 500 GB or 750 GB. WB spec.s. indicate that the 750 GB WB Black is 4 dB louder when seeking. I bought 8 of these last fall and been really happy with my purchase so I am picking up 5 more now that they are on sale for $60 shipped.

Cons: Not $55 shipped? Seriously though, there are no cons with drive at $60 shipped... unless you are some nut like Al Gore trying to save the planet from "global warming". In that case, try cutting carbon emissions by closing your mouth instead...

Overall Review: I read a lot of "not for RAID" nonsense about WB Blacks. While they probably should not be used for "enterprise" level RAID, there is no problem with using them for "pro-sumer" level RAID. That's is what I do and even WB Greens would work fine.. I also want to note that WD's RAID Edition (RE) drives adds nothing per se to RAID 0 (striped) sets, they only stop redundant drives from rebuilding the set because one is dealing with a bad sector. Google: "TLER"

Pros: Comes with Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 & 10.5 drivers on the CD! Works in PPC (G4, G5) Macs! (I tested it with my old 867MHz G4 PowerBook which has no AirPort card on 10.5.8)

Cons: The Mac OS X 10.5 driver does not seem to work with the 64-bit kernel on 10.6. RoseWill has not released Mac OS X 10.6 drivers either. (I would expect the Mac OS X 10.5 driver to work in 32-bit kernel in 10.6, but did not try it).

Overall Review: I got this for free from NewEgg when ordering a TrendNet TEW-633GR. Both this products are great. I use the RNX-EasyN1 on a laptop so I can set the router to run in 802.11n exclusive (no g, no b, no a, no problems!).

Pros: Lian Li only competes with itself, they clearly make the best cases. Unlike electronics, cases do not become obsolete. So investing in a quality case makes sense. Otherwise, this case features a hot swappable SATA rack that hold 7 drives, an (optional) bottom mounted PSU position and a motherboard tray with an area cut out to mount CPU heatsink retainers from behind (i.e. without having to detach the motherboard).

Cons: Although I have no serious objection to replacing the obnoxious glowing blue LED fans in the front with respectable ones, I am very concerned about the fact that Lian Li made the partial front door on the PC-B71 with plastic. I mean.... plastic? Come on.... I thought this was a Lian Li case... they had no problem providing an nice aluminum door on the PC-9. See the review on the PC-B71 at techPowerUp.com.

Overall Review: Although it has apparently been discontinued, the Lian Li PC-A7010 is a good alternative to consider for full sized case with a stock hot swappable SATA rack. If you can live without hot swappable SATA, the Lian Li PC-B70 is practically the same case, just without the plastic face that I find objectionable.

Pros: I am little annoyed with the n00bs dissing the TEW-633GR below. This is really one of the only decent consumer routers on the market and it often available at a good discount from NewEgg. I have had two in use for a combined total of about in year in time and had absolutely no problems with either one. In fact they have been a joy to use compared to the junk I have had to deal with before. It is worth pointing that the 633GR has fairly meaty built-in antenna power, 3 x 4dBi, compare that with 2 x 2dBi that of others, and that it can operate as repeater to extend your wireless range to other buildings (bridge mode), which means that you can probably find a use for this router or re-sell it long after it becomes obsolete as router per se.

Cons: The only real complaint I have about this router is that you can not lock down access to the Admin/User control pages by IP address or simply entirely disallow WLAN access to them. Instead you have to filter by MAC addresses, which is not as secure (since wireless device broadcast their MAC addresses for access of course). Otherwise, detachable antennas would be improvement for use as repeater.

Overall Review: The last TEW-633GR I bought from NewEgg came with a free Rosswill RNX-EasyN1 USB Adapter. It may not be high powered but it is fully Mac OS X compatible (Intel & PPC) and even worked with my old G4 PowerBook (I was shocked). I used that adapter so I can run exclusively in 802.11n for better performance and am certain many problems that people are reporting below are due to the mixing of modes (i.e running 802.11g/n or worse). Due yourself a favor and just the 802.11n adaptors you need (it is not like they are expensive) and stop whining about the 663GR.