Pros: Very quiet. Well engineered. Mobo standoffs seem to be fine. Good looking case. The 3.5" internal drive brackets are movable and include rubber grommets to reduce hard drive vibration.

Cons: The front bezel has a curious mounting system. The mounting brackets that hold it on are hinged so that the bezel has a small amount of play. Once you tighten it up it seems fairly rigid, but I've got 10 HD's in a couple of the supermicro 5.25"-5x3.5" drive enclosures, which pushes the total system weight up pretty high. If I pick it up with a hand under the front bezel there is some shifting on the part of the bezel, resulting in being slightly out of line until the screws are loosened and it's put back into position.

Overall Review: I like this case a lot.

Pros: Good $/GB.

Cons: Bought five of these, the supermicro 5x 5.25" enclosure and an ACARD ANS-9010B for use with ZFS and Solaris. Everything worked grand. ACARD released a firmware update. Applying that firmware onto the 9010B resulted in two of these drives faulting. Upon a reboot they reported themselves as 33 MB drives. Various efforts of fiddling with system settings (resetting the controller via cfgadm in solaris, resetting the port, removing the drives from the system and letting them sit for hours without power, etc.) resulted in one drive returning to normal. The remaining drive stubbornly continues pretending to be 33 MB. Contacting their CS people resulted in "RMA it." In my mind they should be able to provide me with a utility that will reset the device to factory defaults. Emails back and forth ended with a smug "our firmware is optimized and we don't ever have to update it, unlike other manufacturers." How soon they forget their YS drives. Not buying another WD product.

Overall Review: Inquiry data still reports correct model and version string. So it's not a matter than the Acard updater somehow installed itself onto these drives. Very surprising that their devices can be destroyed, not that the data can be overwritten, but that the drive itself becomes unusable, merely by the probing behavior from another company's firmware updater. Doesn't bode well for future malware. Haven't lost any data, but only because I backup the most important subset and configured the drives in a data+parity configuration. Also very unsatisfying that their answer is just send it back. We know that their engineering staff has the firmware and that they have the tools necessary to put it on the drive and reset the NVRAM/configuration area to a clean state. Too bad that their customer service is more interested in the number of resolved cases than in helping their customers.

Pros: Very quiet. I bought a couple of these to replace a couple of fans in the back of the Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B drive enclosures. Much quieter. So quiet in fact that the loudest part of that system is the head movement of the drives.

Cons: None so far.

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Cons: This board has known design problem. Capacity C565 needs to be replaced with a 220pf cap. Problem manifests as abrupt power down while burning CDs or using the network connections. MSI has acknowledged this. I RMA-ed my board to them. They returned with a note "there were no problems found with your board." I called them explained the problem again. They sent me a replacement board. Same serial number range, capacitor unchanged.

Overall Review: If you want to get what you pay for then buy Gxxxbyte, AxxS, DxI. Any manufacturer other than MSI.