Pros: *Pretty quiet while playing DVD's *Short Form-factor *Good old Plextor quality

Cons: *Blinding blue activity LED on the front makes it of limited use in a media center *Could be quieter (at least on boot)

Overall Review: I ended up putting a tiny square of black electrical tape over the activity LED. Problem solved.

Pros: * Very nice fit and finish * Feels well designed and has solid construction * Front panel is interesting without being too distracting * Tall riser feet give it airflow even when placed on thick carpet * All sides can be removed for a ton of access to components without tools, and the action of removing them feels pleasingly solid. * Plenty of space to hide cabling on back side (though I wouldn't say no to another half inch) * 3.5" HDs have nice rubber mounting points to reduce noise. * Packaging and manual are very slick and well designed * Any unused features can generally be removed entirely * Plenty of room for even giant heat sinks

Cons: * Seems that the motherboard standoffs don't accept the industry standard m3 screws, instead accepting the 6-32 mounting screws. With only 15 included, and the MB taking 9, that only leaves 6 remaining to secure HDDs. I did not find a use for the 40 m3 mounting screws that were included. * Would prefer all aluminum construction for weight/heat, though I know aluminum cases have gone out of fashion in the industry * Reconfig for 3.5" HDs is cool, but seems a bit wonky. I like the cover for the screws to hide some of the visual noise though. * 3.5" HD trays seem a bit unsecured with only 2 screws and a mechanical contact point on the third corner. I can move the HD to collide with the HD tray above by pressing lighly on the left corner. Some more space between drives or less flexible trays would be nice. * A little too short to fit 3 140" fans in the front * Bottom compartment only has access from one side, so routing cables down there isn't always the easiest. * Would prefer less dust filters on top and bottom and replacing with solid sides, though I know it is the "meshify" brand. Still, it's an extra 2 sides of the case to worry about cleaning dust filters for, since I don't have fans there. * Not a huge fan of the square power button, and the action on the buttons could be more pleasing, though they do feel very solid for the type of buttons they are. I'd prefer more travel on the action - these buttons have about 1mm of travel. * All black covers mean any installed cards end up not matching the asthetic with their silver brackets.

Overall Review: I would recommend the case to others, as it is very nice to work with overall and has a high quality to every aspect of construction. Most issues I have with it are nitpicks - I'd definitely buy again.

Pros: Clips seem solid, cables look nice

Cons: I ordered 2 packs of 5, and they came in different lengths. One pack had all 19" long cables, and the other had all 23.25" long cables. The cables were also a bit grimey - handling them the cable portions felt like they'd been droped in a pile of dust then blown off. A good wipe down cleaned them up, but it was extra work I've never had to do with the 50+ other SATA cables I've ever owned.

Overall Review: They ultimately get the job done, but they could be better with fit and finish

Pros: Simple clean design Onboard power & reset buttons are great for building Debug code LED is nice BIOS/Setup is very full featured - basically everything is exposed for tweaking Installed windows fine off of a USB drive right to my m.2 drive XMP worked for my Corsair 13-15-15-28 16GB pair of DDR4, but it was a bit tricky to find the setting for it Had all the features I was looking for for a silent PC build: Room for a giant Be Quiet 250W TDP heatsink (so I could go fanless on the CPU) Overclocking designed components meant I had plenty of headroom for stock operation without fans M.2 support means no moving HD parts making noise, while still leaving my PCIE slots available Good fan speed support - only 1 fan runs at idle, and it's set to be nearly inaudible

Cons: Audio seems to pop sometimes when booting/resuming, as others have mentioned Audio has a noticeable hum with nothing playing (though I haven't isolated that to the MB yet - may be my speakers) Could use 1-2 more SATA ports for my file server build - it only has 6 total BIOS/Setup could use some better explaination for a lot of options. Most things you just have to assume are set right unless you want to spend the night googling everything. Speedfan seems to misreport CPU temps - I doubt my system is running at 0 C indoors with no fans. I think it's running the C -> F conversion backwards I installed Win10 on a Samsung 950 m.2 card. When I tried to add another m.2 card using a Syba PCIE card, the system wouldn't boot to the onboard m.2 drive anymore. I had to move the system m.2 drive to the PCIE board to boot, swaping the other drive to the motherboard m.2 slot. Windows then showed both drives fine once booted.

Overall Review: I have 2 of these now, and 1 of its cousin, the Gene. 1 is a gaming PC, 1 is my fileserver, and the Gene is my media center. I'll probably look at getting a soundcard for the audio issues. I'll also need a SATA card for my fileserver so I can run more than 6 SATA drives. None of this stuff is a dealbreaker, but it would be nice if these few rough edges were smoothed over.

Pros: Quiet, & low power. Able to truely live up to the "I" in RAID (redundant array of INEXPENSIVE disks). Redundancy also lets you avoid some of the data loss others see when drives inevitably die. 3 year warranty is nice too when that happens.

Cons: A little slow and cheaply built, but not a big problem with redundancy & speed gains of a Raid setup.

Overall Review: Bought 8 of them to run in a Raid 5 set up over a year ago, and just had the first one start failing. Was only a read error with bad sectors though, so it didn't fail catastrophically. Not too bad considering it was up for months at a time. Shipping back for a free replacement this week.

Pros: *It just worked on first boot, no issues *Fanless design, yet only warm to the touch *No extra cables to connect like all those modern graphics cards :-) *PCI, so you can stick it in anything *Price *VGA and DVI Ports

Cons: *No Windows 2008 drivers (though really, they're not needed for a server anyway)

Overall Review: I may need to get a few more of these :-) Defintely would be useful for troubleshooting other computers. It would be nice if it was a small formfactor card, so you could really stick it in anything.