Pros: Unit works twice as fast with USB3 as it does with USB 2 (with an old ~320 GB eSATA drive.

Cons: Vantec web site could be more helpful in pointing out that SOME of these units (mine has a PC board PA-703 rev 1.1) don't use the JMedia chip, and don't need an update, and that the update firmware will give "No device found", because my unit uses a Asmedia 1051 chip rather than a Jmedia chip.

Overall Review: Don't know what chip set is shipping now.

Pros: Swiss Army knife of disk transfers.

Cons: Inconsistent writes on 1TB HST 2.5 inch drive

Overall Review: I used this cable adapter many times in the past to copy whole drives or just a partition, either with Windows, or with Gparted-live. It has worked great until I tried it with a 1TB drive. It all looked fine in Gparted, but when I installed the drive in my laptop, the partitions were all trash. I tried using Gparted again, using a newer USB 3.0 enclosure, and that worked OK. I am guessing that either the adapter has problems with larger drives or with 6 GB/sec drives.

Pros: Cheap.

Cons: Looked good at first, but it got worse as it filled up. Corrupted about fifty priceless pictures. Consistently fails a low level format now at block 15881216.

Overall Review: I have four other SD/SDHC cards which work fine in my Pentax K10D. Will always fully format each new card I get. IMHO, You can't trust Windows or the camera to detect a bad SD card.

Pros: It uses less power, and is quieter than the Antec Smartpower unit which it replaced. (The Smartpower died just inside the 3 year warranty. Hope this one does better. Ask me again in 30 months!) My PC draws 57 watts when idle now. (MS-7032 MB, AMD 754 2800+, 160 GB HD, Seagate tape drive, 6200 video, 512MB RAM, DVD, floppy)

Cons: It wasn't free, even after the MIR.

Overall Review: The cables are PLENTY long, maybe too long if your case is real small.