Pros: Man this cable is so sturdy it's one time thicker than other Cat6 cables i've purchased from my local stores. definitely worth the money.

Cons: five bucks to ship a cable? come on....

Pros: I need additional SATA ports in my system (for non-raid use) so i purchased this card to connect additional hard drives. It's pretty straight forward installation, plug in the card, good to go.

Cons: It will work on the first boot, and on subsequent restarts, the card would not detect 1 or 2 hard drives that are connected to it. The biggest problem is, it would halt windows server 2003 on boot, making an otherwise extremely well built server UNreliable. It also takes VERY long to detect the drives, sort of like the IDE drives lagging when jumpers are not configured properly. Can't imagine what would happen if the OS is based on the controller....

Overall Review: i would go with a more reputable manufacture. This card isn't even capable of performing the most basic tasks it was designed for.

Pros: Excellent GB/$ Ratio. Use two in my thinkpad, one in the HDD bay, the other one in the Ultrabay Slim, giving it a total of 500GB, it beats most desktops!

Cons: newegg shipped two drives without bubble wrap, in an padded ENVELOPE! Absolutely careless in shipping preparation.

Overall Review: Lucky these two drives didn't get crushed by UPS.

Pros: Newegg is quick to southern california

Cons: Asus is dead on arrival.

Overall Review: I've had too many DOA with Asus, Asus get some quailty control already!!! $#@!#%$#

Pros: I've used this in a Shuttle PC file server for about two years, never had a single problem with it, definitely a workhorse.

Cons: After it was retired from server work, I can't seem to find a linux driver that would support this card, yet the manufacture claims "linux is supported." Even the latest build of mandriva 2007 doesn't work with it.

Overall Review: List where to get linux driver in the manual if you're going to list linux support as a "feature"

Pros: not a single coaster. also, when you burn these dvdrs, there are no smoke. very good for the enviroment.

Cons: none