Pros: I've found it to be more capable and reliable than units from the "major" kvm names. I write software, and am connecting (in order) a old Dell dual-P3 box running freeBSD and pretending to be a webserver; my main workstation, a 9yo P4 machine running XP; and a 4yo HP xw9400 (2 4-core Opteron 2354s) that can run freeBSD or XP for when I need muscle. The kvms I evaluated from "major" vendors had more features but -showstopper- didn't support freeBSD. This guy just started right up and nothing seems to bother it.

Cons: With my setup, the cables are too short for me to put the switch within view, so I have to count button presses to get to the machine I want. It occasionally has to think awhile before reacquiring the mouse when I change machines. That seems especially true going to the freeBSD machines, but it might be XFCE4's problem not the switch's.

Overall Review: Another reviewer wrote that the machine on port 1 has to be running for the other ports to work. I haven't found that to be true. My workstation is on port 2, and as long as I change to that port immediately after deadstart (before the bios looks for the keyboard), everything works. I'd like to see a kvm with the same solid engineering, but more features such as LEDs on the pushbutton to keep track of which machine is up, and perhaps longer cables -- if I add a fourth machine right now, it might be impossible to connect it. A 6- or 8-port switch might sell well, too.

Pros: It does the job as a non-RAID storage controller. The new Seagates it's controlling don't seem to benefit in speed from being SATA rather than PATA, but as long as they're no worse, that's okay. The price is decent.

Cons: The card edge is not a good physical fit to the PCI slots 0n my ASUS P4PE board. It's only a fraction of a mm off, but wrestling a card into a slot always makes me nervous. In a mixed SCSI/ATA setup like mine, where I boot from a SCSI device, this card was determined to take over as the boot controller. I finally kludged past it by swapping slots with my Adaptec 39160 card, but it was a pain to have to debug the problem. Rosewill tech support did get back to me quite quickly (same day, given timezone diff) on the issue and after one false start they confirmed my suspicion that the *completely* undocumented J1 jumper block gates the onboard BIOS. So if you don't want the card to control the boot, you can switch the jumper to pins 2 and 3 and save yourself the aggro of playing musical cardslots.

Overall Review: Delivery was, as usual, startlingly quick.

Pros: They don't explode? Seeing one doesn't frighten the cat very much? I can't think of anything more apposite.

Cons: If you look closely at the picture of the cable, and imagine installing it, you'll see that unless your power supply is mounted at the top of the case, or you have SAS drives (I'm not suggesting that you could use it for SAS) the drive connectors are attached upside down: the little orienting stub points UP when for SATA it needs to point down. So, to use it, you have to turn the cable upside down, and put the last connector on the lowest drive. Then, unless your power supply is top-mounted, you have to run a molex extension up from your power supply to meet the molex connector on this cable which is now dangling in mid-air from the highest drive. If you have a Really Long molex extender, you can perhaps route it around the edge of the case out of sight. If you don't, it will always dangle gracelessly in mid air, putting stress on the connector nearest to it. The insulation on the wires is also quite stiff, making the connecting of adjacent drives problematic.

Overall Review: Like so many products from Mainland China, as opposed to Taiwan where things are done to a high standard, this cable was evidently designed and made by people who had no idea how to do it, the sole intention being to sell it, not that it be useful, satisfactory, or give value for money. (I didn't buy this cable at Newegg, but rather at a competitor's brick-and-mortar store in Cambridge. I incautiously bought 2 of them, and they're going back)

Pros: It's a nice color It worked well while it worked It didn't take everything else with it when it died this morning.

Cons: It went out with a bang -literally. It sounded like a firecracker. It should have lasted closer to 19 years than 19 months.

Overall Review: This is the second Antec power supply that has died prematurely. Both were bought from Newegg, if that's significant. I don't beat up my computers. I'm not a gamer, I'm a retired engineer and write software pro-bono. Power supplies are transformers with rectification. Both transformers and rectifiers have been around since the 1800s. The technology pre-dates the everyday use of electricity --it is s-t-a-b-l-e. Only cheap components and poor quality control can explain premature failures in stable technology. I would much rather pay 10% more for high-quality components than "save" the 10% through cheesy components and poor or no QA. As Edwards Deming proved, savings from corner-cutting are no savings at all, and it costs only a few percent more to deliver very high quality. Newegg should demand that its suppliers deliver that high quality.

Pros: - It's a Rosewill product - It's cheap

Cons: - It cannot be used as a simple SATA 2-port controller, which is unusual. They're defining "JBOD" to mean "spanned" here: concatenating 2 disks into a single logical volume.

Overall Review: I feel that Rosewill and Newegg let me down, since "JBOD" historically has not meant "span" and is not a type of RAID.

Pros: It appears to work okay, but I've only printed perhaps 50 pages so far (I've owned it awhile, but was intent on draining the original cart before installing this one, which I finally did this morning)

Cons: - It doesn't fit into the printer easily. Perhaps I'm going at it from the wrong angle, but the original cart went in and out as smooth as butter. This one doesn't. - If it's trying to trick the printer into thinking it's an HP cart, it's not succeeding. The printer complains bitterly that it's a used, non-HP cart and refuses to provide status information. - It squeaks a bit, which in my experience indicates that its life will be short and its performance will gradually worsen. - The quality of this cart seems poor by comparison to the quality of the one (also Rosewill) I bought for my elderly-but-still-excellent LJ1300.

Overall Review: I wish more people had reported on this cart so I could have an idea whether I just got a bad unit. The bad fit and the squeak are not reassuring.