Pros: They all work and are quiet. They're fans. They spin and do the good air moving thing with the blades and the power and the wind.

Cons: Doesn't chop up a banana when banana put through the fan. Very inconvenient as this machine is located in the kitchen and takes up valuable counter space with no apparent cooking utility. I do, however, use it as a vent hood now.

Pros: Large screen, fairly small pixels, light as a feather.

Cons: You are more likely to obtain a piece of garbage when ordering this than a fully functional screen free of defects. Allow me to elaborate. I got two of these so my wife and I could tandem compute like wizards once did. One of them was in decent shape (only the backlight was bleeding a bit on the edge - not enough to get in a fuss about and very easy to ignore). The other one had multiple warping defects on the screen, lots of stuck pixels, and some seriously obnoxious backlight bleed. So I sent it back. And today I got another one with the same exact problems in different places on the screen (except this one is worse). I am so tired of sending this trash back. I get that it's refurbished, but that should mean it was either repurposed or repaired, not rejected by someone else, dusted off and sold to me in a way that makes me feel like a chump.

Overall Review: This might be an acceptable product to sell if the quality control wasn't nonexistent.

Pros: Small, has the ports I need, and seems to support the 95 watt TDP CPU I crammed into it very well. I got two of them for sticking in a 2U case and racking up into my fancy refridgeration unit, and they're not thoring too much heat into the tiny closed environemnt. A relief, as calculating for total TDP of all components is hard.

Cons: Has a buggy BIOS, as is highly typical of gigabyte boards. Do NOT boot it in BIOS mode if you want to properly detect devices. I've had problems with everything I put in the PCIe ports. Ended up booting via UEFI with iPXE after flashing my NICs and reconfiguring my DHCP server. What a pain. Also, the onboard NIC is prone to signal reflections. DO NOT use short cable lengths with it. I couldn't get the interface to stay up and negotiate properly properly until a meter long, suggesting that they took out all of the backEMF protection in this production run (plus who knows what other noise reduction circuits).

Overall Review: While these problems had workarounds, this is a partially broken product.

Pros: These are good quality drives, perfect for a system that employs even SATA3 for an interface (as in most cases you can't hope to satisfy a 3 Gib/s SATA2 bus with mere spinning rust much less a 6 Gib/s). I ordered three. They are in service now, and running like champions.

Cons: These ARE refurbished drives. Of course they are, they're SATA2. However, they have obviously been checked for any physical problems based on what little SMART data I see on them. I also notice that the majority their SMART data has been wiped. I don't really like this, as it obfuscates the history of the drive. It's obvious that the drives have ~21000 running hours based on the last time a long test was run (a value which was not cleared, thankfully) but I find it to be a bit sneaky, as this is something one would do to make it seem like a new purchase rather than a refurb. This hypothesis would seem to be backed by the total lack of anything stating these drives are refurbs with some significant hours on them. (More than two YEARS) If they were sold at a new price, I would be mad about that. Since it's a refurb price (though admittedly a high one), I don't really care. Just don't go thinking these are new and expect five years out of them. Bank on more like a year (which is when the warranty runs out anyways), or maybe two.

Overall Review: A one year warranty on refurbished drives is pretty swell.

Pros: The thing is rock solid. An armada of PCIeX16, x1 slots and SATA3 connections. Support for huge memory (I'm using 16gb now, a paltry sum for this board). Support for massive interconnect bandwidth. It is the backbone of my primary Xen server. The thing is SUPER reliable.

Cons: None so far.

Pros: Takes good scans, even for photos and artwork. Reasonable speed. Great quality for the money.

Cons: Lid doesn't want to close all the way. It's very light, and does not apply any pressure to the object being scanned, so it sometimes makes gradients if you don't do something about it. Mine is weiged down by a bible. First time I've found one of those useful.

Overall Review: If using Linux, you'll have to play with the brightness and contrast in something other than Simple Scan (SS won't change those settings). Scans will come out muddy and dark. Use xsane or something more powerful like that to compensate for this. Just save your settings for that device and you're done. I guess it's not really that different in work required than dodging Windows junk software in the install. Pick your poison.