Pros: Cheep, moderatly fast

Cons: Advanced format drives, shipped mis-aligned(?)

Overall Review: I bought 2 of these on a pre-black Friday promo from a national office supply chain (not the Egg). My Units came with WD20EARX drives. Not my first choice but in a USB 3.0 enclosure for $10 less than the bare drive who can complain. BUT I've had issues with mis-aligned drives attached to my WHSv1 box so I checked with the WDalign utility. Says they are not aligned as received. Formatted with Windows 7 and they show aligned. Formatted with Buffalo's format tool, not aligned. Contacted Buffalo support and they said the OS format is better than their tool?? Formatted with WHS and they are not aligned. - Maybe the embedded controller keeps the drive aligned and reports back the offset that was requested at time of format... or maybe it doesn't. I'm afraid to trust them long term on the WHS box. I'm tempted to crack one open and attach it directly to an SATA port and see what WDalign says.

Pros: None

Cons: Worthless warrenty

Overall Review: RMA approved (after much work on my part to satisfy Kingston) on 7/28. Today is 9/25 and the replacement still has not shipped. Might as well buy no-name items from an auction site. At least then when it dies you just bin it and get on with your life.

Pros: None so far - still in the build process

Cons: Horizontal USB3 port is HARD to access in medium/large size case.

Overall Review: I've built about 15 systems from scratch and moved motherboards between cases about 15 more. Never bent a pin till tonight. The USB3 connector is nearly impossible to access in a medium large (Antec One) case once installed. I tried to tease the connector in. Shoulda pulled the board to plug in but you are not supposed to have to. If you get this board or another with the horizontal plug BE CAREFUL. This really is a poor design. The connector body on most case USB3 plugs is large and heavy and hanging it "in front" of the board would put it into the drive cage on many smaller cases. I'll pull the board, straighten the pins and once I get the plug in and board running I'll update this review in a couple days.

Pros: Good Price, good reviews

Cons: Unusable drives

Overall Review: Win 8.1 will not stay up for more than 30 seconds with this card the drivers active. Runs in safe mode only. Tried 5 different drivers: The ones shipped with the card Current Gamer Ready Certified from Nvidia Current "regular" certified from Nvidia Current beta from Nvidia The ones that Windows Update installed In every case my system crashes to POST after 20 to 30 seconds with no errors showing in the logs. System runs fine with Nvidia GT610 (certified drivers from Nvidia) and a Radion 6770 card. i7-920 Asus P6T (x58) motherboard RevoDrive x2 240 PCIe SSD. (this may be the incompatibility source but it is my boot drive so without doing a complete re-install of Win8.1 there is no way to know)

Pros: Fast for a while

Cons: BIOS Memory hog Random freezes when "working" Random boots (without BSOD, straight to power reset) Lost one of the "drives" on day 4

Overall Review: Asus P6T (x58) i7-920 12 GB (3x4) DDR3 Crucial RealSSD, 120GB (on Intel on-board) 2 Spinners (on Intel on-board) 1 Optical (on Intel on-board) Where to start... Right out of the box there was the issue of causing my other raid controller to not be seen at boot by the BIOS. This seems to be an issue with the size of the memory space used by the SiliconImage controller in the motherboard memory space (Google it, Tom's HW has a explanation). Problem overcome by PULLING THE BATTERY from the motherboard then reconfiguring my onboard Intel controller to ACHI. Now all the drives appear. Next issue was that imaging my Win8 install won't boot because of not having the correct driver INSIDE the image which causes blue screen at boot, even in safe mode. So I had to install Win7 because my Win8 is upgrade only... Then got Win8 installed and updated then broke it trying to re-image my old SSD with a backup of my old install. Then Win7 won't install – BSOD Replace Video Card – Fixes BSOD (or did it?) Win8 back up and running... still random freezes and "Rate my Performance" causes reboot (straight to power off again NO BSOD). The log at \windows\performance\winsat shows last action is a video test over and over. Try to under-clock video card 10% no joy, 20% no joy, 30% What the Heck... Drive error - no boot. Only 3 55 gig drives in RAID at boot. Boot to OCZ tools, only 3 of 4 appear there. Cold boot, no change. Shut down to cool 30 minutes, no change. Junk Junk Junk. I can't wait to get this Piece of Scrap out of my box and put my old video card back in. I bet it is fine. This is an interesting toy, but I'll be loathe to trust a replacement. I WILL however partition it such that I can rebuild the array with 3 drives and reinstall from backup image, long enough to get it back onto a REAL SSD. Not being able to support my on-board Intel controller in RAID mode is unfortunate too, though I had taken apart my old array of spinners some months ago. I never bothered to reconfigure the controller to ACHI after that. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I'll update after the RMA process and let everyone know how that process went. If you buy one plan on: 1. Reset BOIS memory and use a 2nd RAID with caution as most boards don't have enough memory space for this one and another. 2. Plan on a clean install. Perhaps if I had been able to boot my old install prior to the image it would have had the driver in-place so that when it showed up as the boot drive it could have survived. I sure couldn't get it to update the driver after being imaged into the array. 3. Partition the array at less than 75% for your boot partition so that if needed you can rebuild the array with 3 of 4 drives so that when 1 goes down you can rebuild with 3 and still fit your image onto it. This may also help the GC to keep performance at peek if you leave the 25% unallocated.