Pros: Does the job, reasonably sturdy, correct dimensions and everything.

Cons: Screws for mounting the bracket in the 5.25" bay are *self-tapping*; the plastic screw wells are unthreaded, and the provided screws are meant to cut into it and "tap" their own threads. Make sure you have a good, full-sized screwdriver, would not be fun with a pocket driver.

Pros: There aren't very many trayless hotswap systems for 2.5" SATA drives at the moment. It's very nice to be able to simply pop the disk in and go. Despite taking bare drives, there's very little 'play' in the slots (with 9.5mm hard disks). You're certainly not going to have problems ejecting the drives by mistake!

Cons: The eject action is very, very stiff, at least in my unit, requiring an amount of force I consider pretty unreasonable. Besides potentially being problematic in smaller (lighter) cases and requiring a nice, strong mount (no duct tape and baling wire!), this has a very alarming side effect: when the drive does pop out, it does so with enough force that I worry about whether I'm subjecting hard disks to excessive shock. This shouldn't be a big deal for SSDs, obviously.

Overall Review: Modern laptop hard disks are quite tolerant of shock even when operating, so the eject action may not be particularly worrisome to you. Check to see if your OS supports powering off a SATA hard disk in software if it does bother you.

Pros: Seems to run very cool, especially for a "stock overclocked" unit - the cooling system is apparently the same one Sapphire uses on higher-end Polaris cards. The two fans seem quite quiet, even under load. Another reviewer some eight months ago observed that it didn't work well on Linux at that time; I don't have NVIDIA hardware to compare with, but it seems to be fine in April of 2017.

Cons: I could do without the silly glowylight. Those who just LOVE silly glowylights may be sad that only one fan has a light behind it. The requirement for a 6-pin power connector is unusual in a low-end card, and may well rule it out for some builds. (I presume it's necessary because of the factory overclock.)

Overall Review: I'm using this with a Ryzen 7 1700 on a B350 motherboard, under Linux (obviously not a dedicated gaming computer!); everything seems to work remarkably well, including open-source OpenGL drivers.

Pros: 8C/16T for $330! Performs wonderfully in multithreaded tasks such as software compilation or rendering. I am having no trouble running Linux exclusively on my new AM4 system, although you'll want a very recent kernel for now (Debian testing+experimental works, as an example). The stock HSF is fairly compact yet well-built and quiet; apparently others have achieved substantial overclocks with it.

Cons: With respect to the HSF: I preferred the old AMD spring-clip mounting system, in all honesty. I also don't care for the glowylight, particularly - given that lower-end Ryzens are supposedly not including it, it seems you may even be paying (a little) extra for it. OS support is still a little sparse; in an ideal world I might like the option of not running a rolling-release linux system. Free OSes other than linux will probably be relatively iffy for some time, although I did not have any trouble booting and installing a recent OpenBSD snapshot.

Overall Review: The weak links here appear to be memory capacity ("only" 64GB or so with these desktop processors on the AM4 socket - seriously RAM-intensive HEDT people would appear to be stuck with Broadwell-E for now) and motherboard availability (I had no end of trouble with an ASUS board and am apparently not alone - Gigabyte and ASRock seem to be the go-to AM4 motherboard makers at the moment). The former applies only to a very small class of workloads, and the latter isn't really the CPU's fault. As for exact compile times, I get about 12 minutes for linux 4.10 (using the default Debian config file for amd64) on Debian testing+experimental (gcc 6.3.0), and perhaps 20 minutes for 'make build' in OpenBSD's main src tree.(using OpenBSD's patched gcc 4.2.1). SMT certainly appears to be doing something, I get CPU-to-elapsed time ratios of roughly 11:1 to 13:1 (where in a strictly 8C/8T setting I would expect almost, but not quite, 8:1).

Pros: Silly glowylights are silly. If you do get one working, it's very hard to find modern motherboards with real, separate PS/2 ports (like this has).

Cons: Two units in a row showed absolutely no sign of life under any circumstances, apart from lighting up the glowylights and spinning up fans. No beep codes or anything, even without RAM installed at all. All the other components are now working fine... with a Gigabyte motherboard. On top of this, a lack of fan headers may be problematic in some cases, and PCIe slot placement is suboptimal. ASUS' "special" RAM slots, with a tab on only one end, are more irritating than standard slots in my opinion, not less.

Overall Review: I cannot be absolutely certain the boards were genuinely broken, since I don't have random DDR4 modules just laying around (or spare money to buy a bunch of different modules for easter egging). It is just possible that the board refused to POST with my RAM for some reason (I have a single module from a multiple-module pack listed in the QVL), and simply has no support for diagnostic beep codes. In either case, I can't imagine you'd want the board. Bonus points to ASUS for posting a useless boilerplate 'response' to a previous version of this review, preventing me from updating it without deleting/recreating, and for wasting roughly an hour of my time being transferred between "wrong queues" in their phone support system. I strongly doubt I'll be buying any more ASUS products in the future, after that experience.

Pros: More 2.5" brackets than you'll ever use (a total of 9(!)). Good utilization of a pleasingly small footprint. 120mm main fan permits a nice, quiet build if other components are chosen accordingly (I might suggest a fanless CPU cooler and a power supply with a large intake fan). The handle is sturdy, useful, and seems to be pretty unique in micro-ATX cases. The bottom edge of the motherboard is right out in the open when the top cover is off, making it easy to access headers there.

Cons: Inevitably quite cramped inside; the build will not be very easy, especially with a full-sized microATX motherboard. You might consider mounting the CPU cooler to the motherboard before installing it, if it's not an old-style AMD spring-clip system (screwdrivers tend to foul the central crossbeam). Would rather have had an external 3.5" bay than the 7-position 2.5" bracket, personally. CPU coolers with a non-reversible downward-exhaust fan will tend to fight with power supply intake fans.

Overall Review: The "Wraith Spire" stock cooler that comes with AMD Ryzen 1700 CPUs at the time of writing just barely fits underneath the power supply, although it will be less efficient than a side-blowing fan or (better still) an aftermarket cooler like the "NT06-PRO" Silverstone recommends for these cases that has an easily reversible fan (so you can point it up, towards the PSU). Unlike the only other reviewer at the time of writing, I received a generous supply of screws with my case (but no PC-speaker-on-a-pigtail, you may wish to purchase one separately).