Pros: Low power consumption, very quiet, reasonably small form factor. I put 1Gb Ram, 250 Gb SATA, and a DVD combo drive, along with a Hauppauge PVR-350, and installed KnoppMyth. Works really well, provided you use the encoder AND the decoder (have to dump output to a tv). Won't play dvd's at all due to weak cpu, but makes a great dvr.

Cons: None really, except I forgot to buy SATA cables. It DOES NOT come with with power or data cables for SATA drives, and it DOES NOT support 3.0 Gb drives. You must use 1.5's or have 3.0 drives that will jumper down to 1.5. Otherwise, the BIOS will not detect them.

Overall Review: I didn't have any trouble working with the case as others have mentioned. The case opens by removing two screws, and the whole drive chassis swings out, giving tons of room to work inside.

Pros: Great price.

Cons: Bought two of these to build pvr's with. First drive died within hours of putting it in the machine. No noise, no symptoms, just disappeared from BIOS after working fine for about half a day. The second drive started making clicking noises after a day or so, then died a horrible, dramatic, Hollywood B-western style death.

Overall Review: I've used Hitachi's before without trouble (the venerable Deskstar line), but these were either junk or I just caught a tech on a bad day. Never had to return anything to Newegg before, so I'm hoping they live up to their stellar reputation.

Pros: Cheap.

Cons: Cumbersome to configure. If that were the only issue, I'd be keeping it. But it WILL NOT get anywhere close to N speeds, even when coupled with TRENDNET 802.11N nics. What's the point then? It's not even a decent b/g access point. It consistently drops connections, especially if you try to move large amounts of data over it, and I've tried a half dozen clients all with different o/s' and nics, so it's definitely the a/p. The firmware fixes claim to fix this, but alas, they DO NOT. Between resetting wifi connections on clients and rebooting this thing all the time, I don't even want it for a paper weight. Don't waste a cent on it. Read the other reviews if you think I'm all alone on this complaint.

Overall Review: TrendNet in general is low-end equipment, good really only for home use. I've used their hubs and routers and not had the kind of issues I've had with this. If an access point can't handle more than 1 or 2 clients lightly surfing, or 1 client trying to download a large file, then it's complete garbage. Go with *any* other brand until TrendNet figures how to make something besides hubs and routers.