Pros: - Up to 16 SATA drives supported - Good price for the quality and number of ports

Cons: - Does not come with the SFF-8087 mini-SAS cabling - Documentation is a little ambiguous for the newbie to LSI products - Some motherboards the BIOS will override/disable some chipset SATA ports due to boot conflicts -- I had no problems, I disabled the boot functionality of the HBA in the LSI firmware and no issues.

Overall Review: Using this card to control drives for a FreeNAS build and it works great with the FreeNAS drivers. Caveat, FreeNAS 9.3.X at the time of this review requires the card to be flashed to version P20 firmware. Flashing this card can be done several ways, and some of the documentation on the Avago (LSI) support site is a bit confusing to someone new to the Avago (LSI) products. A little googling and I had no problems, took about 15 minutes. I did it through the EFI shell and script (downloadable from the Avago website). I would highly recommend this product to anyone who needs a lot of drives for a ZFS file system, particularly FreeNAS -- completely stable.

Pros: - None -- does not work as advertised.

Cons: - Does not work

Overall Review: - DO NOT BUY - Plugged into power - Plugged into device - Plugged the USB-C data into a USB-C monitor, nothing. - Plugged headphones into headphone jack, tried playing music NOTHING RIP OFF

Pros: - solid build, very little plastic component. - locking/protection mechanism - smooth insertion and removal action - easy to hook up, power and data ports readily accessible. - drives run very cool, only a few degrees over ambient

Cons: - fan is on the loud side even on the low setting it is audible, but not unexpected from an 80 mm - sadly, the number of cases that can even accept a single 5.25 device are few let alone 3 bays (which this model requires)

Overall Review: I am most impressed with the quality. I purchased 7 of these to out in a massive tower to run a NAS no issues at all with any of them. Makes swapping out drives a breeze. No issues with vibrations or overheating. Ended up swapping out the fans with something quieter. Could not be more pleased.

Pros: - Plenty of juice to supply 10-15 mins of power - Nice menu system, easy and intuitive. - UPS standards supported, works with all my OSes to trigger power down.

Cons: - Flaky battery. What I mean by this is randomly reports bad battery. I replaced the batter after only a month of use, did the same thing. A reset/power cycle of the unit fixes it. Just very finicky. This makes it cumbersome to use, hence the 3 star review.

Overall Review: - I would not recommend this model of product, cannot help but believe there is a design flaw.

Pros: - Cheaper and slightly slower than the TI - Nice block attached at the factory, retains warranty

Cons: - No longer relevant with 3080 - I got a bad card, will lock up on 1/3 of the games with checkerboard multicolor freeze, locks and reboots system. Swapped in an older 1080 everything works fine, the card was bad out of the box. - Tried to submit a service ticket to EVGA, site errored out. Could not start an RMA to save my life. - Emailed support, still waiting on response, not a word yet.

Overall Review: - Highly not recommended, not with the 3080 out - Highly recommended to use someone other than EVGA, they are unresponsive to problematic and defective hardware.

Pros: - Feature, feature rich - Rock solid quality, heaviest MB I have ever used, back plate alone probably ways a pound - A tweaker's delight, every parameter you can imagine. - Personal Preference: Going from R6E and R6E Omega to the Encore they ditched the U.2 port and used the extra PCIe lanes for other goodness -- good move! - Water cooling headers - Even back panel sound jacks are LED lit...just really cool. - Uniformly black with tasteful RGB accenting will allow this board to fold into almost any build with style. - High quality VRMs for clean and efficient power delivery to the CPU.

Cons: - Costs ... but hey, you only live once. Splurging a little is fun.

Overall Review: - If you have the cash and you are a hard core enthusiast then undeniably get this, it is the highest quality, most feature rich board I have ever worked with.