Joined on 06/03/03
Works, low cost
Pros: Works - does what it is supposed to do. Is plenty fast enough for me for what I want.
Cons: A small nit. If you use the key chain hole, you can't store the cap on the end of the stick.
Overall Review: Was looking for the largest memory I could find for the lowest price that had a decent rating! It does it.
Works and inexpensive
Pros: Works for me but I am using it as and external drive for Dish receiver. The receiver recognizes, initializes and reads and writes to it with no issues.
Cons: Had three from almost 2 years to about 1 1/2 years and one quit on it me. I think it is the power supply which is pretty minimal but the drive is still good and worked fine in another enclosure.
Overall Review: If you have this in some kind of critical service I would buy a spare because the life of the power supply may in question. They are cheap enough that this should not be a problem. I am not using this with Win10 so I cannot address those issues directly but when I was troubleshooting the failure I plugged the drive in an SATA port and since it was in a non-windows file system it did not get assigned a drive letter but it did show up in Disk Management so I would guess if it were initialized and formatted on a Win10 system it probably would work.
glitches
Pros: Lots of SATA ports, generally pretty sweet combo of mid level speed and features.
Cons: Would not boot to optical media no matter what (see below). Also you could not install Windows 10 with a USB drive if an optical drive was connected to the MB. It would garf up as soon as you selected "Install Now". Disconnect all optical drives and boot up the install USB and Windows installed with no issues at all! Some other glitches with the USB thumb drives staying connected in UEFI which was nail biting doing a BIOS update.
Overall Review: It took awhile to figure out what was going on but eventually I was able to isolate some seemingly random issues to the fact the UEFI apparently really did not like optical drives. This does not seem to a common problem according to all the reviews I read so I suspect there is an uncommon glitch in the firmware on my MB. But the MB just would not recognize bootable media in an optical drive so there was no way in the world to boot to any optical media. Fortunately I was using USB to install Windows but even that was a problem because as mentioned above, it was impossible to install windows from a USB drive if an optical drive was installed! I did finally get Windows 10 installed and everything seemed to work as normal but it bugged me that UEFI had such problems with optical drives and then there was the problem with losing connections with USB drives during a BIOS update. And yes, I tried a bunch of different optical drives, media, cables and SATA ports all with the same result. I did contact support and they did respond quickly but once the problem shaped up to likely being a MB problem, it was kicked up to the hardware group and there it sits since around Jan 9 with no more contact. Since I already have a computer with an ASROCK Z690 Extreme that I really like it, I replaced the Pro RS MB on my own dime with another Z690 Extreme which I found for only $10 more than I paid for the Pro RS and it has worked flawlessly. Functionally the Z690 Extreme and Pro RS are so nearly the same, that you can take a system drive from the Extreme and put in the Pro RS and it boots up with no errors. IT also works the other way too. I may hear back from ASROCK and work something out but I could not wait any longer to finish my computer.
Had high hopes but poor execution hobbled the overall result
Pros: Relatively inexpensive for a large case. Lots of SSD and HD capacity and options. Top made for multiple fan radiators for the CPU. Lots of fan screen/filters and should hold down dust build up in the case.
Cons: The drives are mounted so that you insert them from the MB side but the connections are on the opposite (back side) which means you have to remove both sides of the case to do any work on the drives. Which presents the next problem, both sides are attached with two thumb screws making the access to the hard drives very inconvenient since neither side has a latch for easy removal. The "easy" attachment system for optical drives is apparently one spring loaded finger and thumb-operated screw so each drive will be secured by only one screw. That was not the worse because in my case one of the drives had two of these special screws installed on the middle drive bay and none on the bottom bay. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to move one of them down to the next bay. To add insult to injury, there is no provision to use normal mounting screws, it is to use the install special screws or nothing! As a result I can only use the top and middle bays. But the most obvious problem is the top of the case will not lock down on the case. It is a push to latch, push again to unlatch system that will not latch under any circumstances and the latches are spring loaded so the top cannot just lay flat. By comparison, the last is a quibble. Being a steel case and pretty big, it is heavy. Except for the back of the case there are no hand holds to help lift it on and off the floor. I had expected to put 2 SSDs and 4 HD, a couple of optical drives and a hot swap bay and a 850 watt power supply: this will be hard to pick up safely.
Overall Review: I do not recommend this case unless the Cons I found are not issue for you. I would not buy it again and will probably relegate this to being test stand or just scavenge the fans and any useable hardware and recycle the bare case.
Good value
Pros: Old dependable. Been using them for a long time. Easy to set up. Decent range in our house.
Cons: Does not have 5G and that is about all.
Overall Review: If you want a simple easy to use WIFI router without 5G. This is hard to beat. Been around forever and simple to set up.
Good value
Pros: It worked right out the box except for the sound. Color is good and required only a few adjustments.
Cons: For some reason the speakers don't seem to be working. I am still working on that but even if I can't fix it, I can live with that. I am using two monitors and so I can use the speakers built in to the other one.
Overall Review: I would buy it again because it is such a good value and good detail and color.