Pros: Nice and small, reasonably low power, has 4 SATA ports, and 1 1x Pci-E slot (for expansion.)

Cons: I RMA'd the first board because it would hang with a corresponding video glitch. The replacement did the same, which led me to find that the memory I had (A-Data AD2U800B2G5-DRH) was not bad, but incompatible for some reason. I had tried running it slower and one stick at a time with the same result. And the A-Data memory is now working flawlessly in another PC. So, my mistake to RMA, but I thought I covered all my bases. Still not sure why it didn't work and I'm a bit disappointed that I now have 2GB instead of 4GB in this machine. Otherwise I wish this also had a standalone digital audio out (in case I ever re-purpose this as my HTPC.)

Overall Review: I added 2 more SATA ports on this and have 6 hard drives hooked up as a Linux file server. This replaced an old nForce 2 MB w/ an Athlon XP 2500+. I couldn't be happier. Over Gigabit Ethernet I can get > 100MByte/sec data rates from the hard drives. On the 2500+ I topped out at about 35MByte/sec since the SATA drives and Ethernet were all on the same PCI bus. Memory bandwidth was more than double based on 'hdparm -T' results. So far so good!

Pros: Does sound good when it works

Cons: Loud humming for (apparently) quite a few folks.

Overall Review: I did some testing with different systems, with hum in all scenarios. I then focused on the speaker unit itself and found that putting pressure on the 9 pin DB connector can clear up the noise issue, so one or more pins in that connector aren't making good contact in the 'normal' insertion. Using a DB9 extension cable helped quite a bit, but some residual hum was still there, so the best scenario is for me to (gently/slightly) bend the pins in the connector so that when inserted it makes solid contact. Not ideal for sure, but perhaps better than paying to ship back when it only cost $50 in the first place. And as an engineer, I don't think I'd ever use DB9 connector for audio I/O, especially on the subwoofer which clearly will be vibrating when used.

Pros: Love the tiny form factor, SSD is fast (even if a strange/uknown brand) Cheaper than a retail Window 10 Pro license (although it has Win 10 Pro Refurb license) Great for business/office tasks Included Windows 10 was fairly up do date (last update was about 1 month ago.) This made the first launch and update fairly quick (vs. doing updates for hours.)

Cons: While a (pleasant?) surprise, the include keyboard and mouse are insanely "cheap". I wasn't expecting them at all in the first place, so I suppose it's a bonus, although I doubt I'll ever use them... The Wi-Fi is also achieved via a USB adapter, not the integrated Wi-Fi solution the M92p tiny's would typically have. The adapter is a RTL8192 802.11n device that I suppose works fine, but much like the keyboards and mice, I expect I'll never use them. In my application everything is wired anyways.

Overall Review: Purchase 8 of these to run a specific application for clients to be accessed via remote desktop. These perfectly fit the bill--cheaper than a Windows 10 pro license, plenty of horsepower, small size, low power, etc. I did have to enter product keys for each unit (located on the Win 10 Pro for Reburb labels on each) to properly activate Windows. All 8 activated without any problems. So far, very happy with my purchase! If I had an office full of people needing PCs, this would be a great option to get everyone a pretty decent PC without breaking the bank!

Pros: Inexpensive (if on sale), Reasonably High performance

Cons: The OOB (out of box) experience with this thing is pretty awful. The quick start guide suggests that you open it up, add drives, plug-in, wait 10 minutes, then you're good to go. This is NOT the case. See other thoughts for how to really get this going:

Overall Review: With no included drives, this thing has no 'firmware', so it will boot into EM mode (emergency/engineering mode), and suggest you do a firmware update or call tech support. Any drives you add will most likely not have this firmware either, but adding them is an important step (do that next). Then, do the firmware update (DL files from Buffalo). You will probably have to edit the LSUpdater.ini file to say NoFormatting = 0 (instead of 1). Then when you update firmware it will ask if you want to format the drive, which WILL WIPE OUT ANY DATA ON THE DISK. But this is a necessary step as the 'firmware' it loads will be placed on the hard drive. Let this grind a while and you'll end up with a working unit with the 2 drives in a RAID 0 configuration, even if not the same size, so I suspect it's more like a concatenation of the drives in that case. Then you can customize things via the web interface. I did put 2 4-TB drives in one unit (I have 3 now) and reconfigured for RAID 1. This takes a LOOONG time to sync the drives. I suspect the sync rate is limited to about 35MB/sec, giving me about a 32 hour sync time. And so far no joy with USB drives--they are detected but say they are unformatted. Will try formatting one soon just to see how that goes (but not on a drive with data on it.) I also plan to play with getting sshd running on this thing. Apparently you can modify the 'firmware' files (Linux filesystem and initrd image) and then re-update to do stuff like this and then I could get in and really start playing around (perhaps up the sync rate for the raid if that's the limit.) All in all, this is a decent unit for the price, but I was really hoping for the 'firmware' to really be 'firm'--not on the hard drives. Imagine that the 1st hard drive craps out and then you need to install firmware again to get access to the other drive. I'd even be happy if the 'firmware' could live on a USB stick instead of the hard drive(s).

Pros: Gigabit, dual band, relatively inexpensive Can install DD-WRT (etc.)

Cons: Received bad hardware (I think) Installing DD-WRT voids warranty

Overall Review: I installed DD-WRT right away, which it turns out was a mistake. It seemed to be working okay. But the switch portion of the router was flaky, dropping packets for 3-4 second stretches every 30-60 seconds. When I finally figured this out (TCP has retries and things do still work after the big pauses), I tried restoring factory firmware to see if DD-WRT was the cause and it no longer boots. The unit just sits in a reboot cycle and I've done the TFTP firmware recovery many times with many different firmwares. So, waste of $85, and is now hunk of junk on my shelf. I give it more than 1 star because it does have potential to be an awesome router and I may even buy another one. I should have verified the hardware was solid before installing DD-WRT since that voids the warranty.

Pros: Width is spot of for my needs. Sound is pretty good for not having a separate subwoofer.

Cons: Remote is horrible. I thought I was going to have to return the unit as the remote didn't work and I didn't know if it was due to the remote or the speaker. New batteries didn't help. Thanks to the other (first) review, I did try pushing/prying/squeezing the remote and did eventually come up with a working setup, allowing me to not have to return this thing. A learning remote will make this remote unnecessary. I also have a little buzz/rattle coming out of the right side--I expect it's just not assembled well and I think I'll be able to fix that with a little screw tightening.. The hot-glue stringers all over the unit make it seem pretty cheaply made (which is reinforced by the flakey remote as well.) I wish the remote could toggle the power--it does mute/standby. Probably okay as the input selection and volume level reset when powered off.

Overall Review: For the price (~ $90), I'm really happy with the sound quality and the size. It should fit perfectly in my TV cabinet (34.5" wide), and has both analog and digital inputs. The only remaining thing I wish it has was Bluetooth streaming, but that's a pipe dream at this price.