Pros: Great spindle drive. Most are long lasting, fast, and speedy.

Cons: I had one die on me after 2 months of use on my workstation. This surprised me, as I've been purchasing WD Black drives for servers for over 10 years. A few only died close to the end of the 5 year warranty period. Most live long enough that the storage size isn't useful any more. So I placed a lot of trust in using a single WD Black drive on my workstation, and it died. I shoulda-coulda-woulda raided it. The morale of the story is to never trust a spindle drive, no matter how awesome they are. (Minus one egg due to my own dumb frustrations.)

Pros: Cheap, and average speed.

Cons: I purchased 4 of these drives for a RAID5 array. After 8 months, 2 out of the 4 have gone bad. I'm still giving this an average rating, because WD's warranty service has been excellent. I have been received the new drives around 2 days after making the RMA.

Overall Review: Since other reviews show people have had these drives go bad, it seems like a cheap model of WD drives. I wouldn't recommend this drive in a single-disk desktop or RAID0 config. Purchase these with the mindset that they *will* fail. As long as they are in a redundant storage setup they should work fine.

Pros: Purchased 8 of these as a secondary tablespace array for a postgres database server. (The primary being 8 Dell enterprise SSDs) Installed on a Dell R720 with a PERC H710 card, bonnie++ reports 917MB/s seq writes, 1207MB/s reads! That's actually slower than my SSD array's sequencial rate of 843MB/s write, 979MB/s read. But as expected, the random seek latency is about 38ms with these drives, compared to 10ms with SSDs. Also, WD warranty is awesome, I always buy WD for my servers.

Cons: My observed seek latency of 38ms is significantly slower than I expected. It's also very difficult to find the average seek time of these drives in WD's official specs. So far I only found a mention of 3.6ms on a UK website, but I'm not sure I believe that. (See other thoughts)

Overall Review: My numbers could be due to many factors, like RAID hardware, stripe size, partition alignment, etc, etc. Take it with a grain of salt. Running queries against large 12GB tables on this array still perform faster than my SSD array, so that says something. (I'm keeping my indexes on SSD still though) Also a heads up, if you stuff these in a Dell server the OSMA going to complain that they're not official Dell drives. They'll be in "warning" status indefinitely.

Pros: 4 monitor support, cheap price, DVI connectors without the need for adapters. Radeon support in Linux is pretty good these days. One bug with powersave mode, but other than that multi-monitor support with the open source radeon driver is way, way better than NVidia.

Cons: It's slow. But hey, you get what you pay for. glxgears runs at about 60FPS with the open source driver. (I didn't notice a speed difference with the Catalyst beta 14 driver) 2D scrolling in a web browser has a slight jitter to it, but it's only noticeable if you're paying attention to it. For these reasons it gets 4 eggs.

Overall Review: This isn't anything specifically bad about the card, but I had more troubles with the Catalyst linux driver than the open source radeon driver. Powersave mode (KDE) would mess up the virtual desktop size, and I'd have to reconfigure my display arrangements and rotations every time the screensaver came on. This might be specific to this card chipset, or just a KDE bug. In short, just turn off powersave mode. In my opinion, the open source radeon driver performs the same as the Catalyst driver, and has fewer issues. In fact, a fresh install of Kubuntu detected all of my displays and spanned them right out of the box! The NVidia architecture doesn't come close to this level of usability. (Multi-head + Xinerama or multiple virtual screens is very 1990's tech) Being able to drag windows across all of my monitors is well worth it. If you're looking for a simple linux workstation card for a development machine, this is a perfect purchase.

Pros: After about an hour of listening to these speakers, I enjoy them. They were meant to be a replacement for a worn out set of Logitech X-230, which is discontinued. A few great pros: * Volume and bass controls right at your fingertips. Great for being in an office * Headphone/line in controls on the side of the R speaker for quick access * The volume control also controls the volume of the headphones. (The X-230 did not do this, you had full volume in your headphones after plugging them in) * Sound is comparable, but see cons * Bass sounds good, even turned down

Cons: I'm not sure if I think the "360 sound" is the right approach for a small set of speakers like this. The X-230 had 2 speakers facing directly at your face. The sound was very crisp due to this. With just a single speaker facing forwards and one behind, music sounds "distant." The X-230 felt like I was sitting right in front of a stereo system even with the volume turned down. (Also great for offices) Also, the Left side speaker cable is a little short. But, it's nice that they used composite connectors, as it's easy to find an extension for it.

Overall Review: In general, these are good speakers. I'm not sure they are really worth $75, but if they were on sale for $50 I would recommend them to a friend. The sound is acceptable, but I'm finding myself tweaking the EQ every few songs.

Pros: Cheap? Compact?

Cons: Cables are way too short. The sat speakers only have a 2ft space between them. (Without splitting/ripping the speaker wire apart) The cables are hard wired into the sub, so routing through office desk cable slots is impossible. The sound quality is also not even worth $30. They sound more like freebie speakers you'd expect on a low end PC.

Overall Review: I was looking for a replacement to my Logitech X-230 speakers that have worn out. I'm in an office so I wasn't looking for anything loud, but these are nowhere near comparable to the X-230. (Which I purchased for around the same price) The sound quality at even low volumes just sounds very cheap. "fuzzy" sounding midrange, non-existent highs, and muddy bass. I'm very surprised other reviewers are so liberal, as this product does not deserve an average of 4 eggs. I feel I'm being pretty nice by rating these at 2. This is the first time I've ever returned something to newegg, and I've been buying stuff on here since 2004!