Pros: Price (incredible for a self-contained hardware RAID 1 array), flexibility, great form factor (small, half the cables and power supplies), no BIOS hooks or funky drivers, easily recognized by 64-bit opensuse 10.2 and 11.0 on a couple of newer motherboards, RAID 1 seems to do what it claims with 2 each, but different, 750 GB drives (one Seagate, one Samsung: perhaps they will not fail at the same time)

Cons: Quirky behavior when reset, klutzy setup (but no BIOS hooks or drivers), inadequate manual, mechanical assembly deceitfully simple (see other thoughts), cooling is barely sufficient: *will* overheat if the only fan fails (a second fan would help reliability), not recognized by opensuse linux 11.0 on an older Supermicro mobo (P6DGU + PCI USB card).

Overall Review: The setup allows for span, jbod, stripe, full redundancy, and a couple more unusual settings IMHO better ignored. Hardware must be reset after any change by pressing an internal (4 screws to undo) button: this may be unavoidable since there are no BIOS hooks. As soon as two new drives are connected, or after a reset as RAID 1, no matter what, this little box starts rebuilding one of the volumes (BTW--watch out: all things equal, the bottom drive is the master). In JBOD setup both disks appear as separate volumes and can be easily addressed individually. Adequate cooling if fans run--but fan stopped after 4 days (possibly my fault: an internal cable pressed against the spinning hub), the box became hot, the disks almost scalding. The fan was alive when disassembled and tested on a different power supply: there was no voltage at the PCB pins. When temperature dropped the fan restarted with 12.7 V at the pins (perhaps some protection kicked in).

Pros: low power

Cons: (1) frame buffer totally messed up on bootup (2) nic needs attention (3) the setup time needed turned this into an expensive Linux installation for the first time.

Overall Review: if installing Linux, some TLC needed. (1) Booting Ubuntu Server (12.04 or 12.04.03 or 13.10, have tried all three) the screen is completely garbled. This can be remedied uncommenting the line GRUB_TERMINAL=console in /etc/default/grub and then $ sudo update-grub $ sudo reboot Note that you will have to ssh into the box to do that, since the console is completely unusable until the above happens; so check ssh server at install time! (2) you need at least a 3.8 kernel. For Ubuntu, my 12.04 platform standard had to be upset because 3.2 does not provide for the 8111 realtek nic in this board. The following worked for me: Install Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 LTS $ sudo apt-get install linux-firmware $ sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree $ sudo reboot The next time I run into this kind of grief I will return the hardware. Way too much nonsense, should have stuck with my preferred brands.

Pros: Works like a charm in a PCI-X slot (Asus P6T WS Pro mobo) for at least 1 FireWire 800 connection, powering up an external SSD and clocking around 80MByte/sec solidly on Windows 7 64 (with large files). Operation was plug-and-play, no setup hassles, Win 7 64 recognized the device and installed drivers automatically.

Cons: Mechanical setup of back-facing connectors somewhat cheap. If all connectors opearate at the same time, PCI-64 at 33 MHz (what the card supports) will likely be swamped, but this latter point is, in my case, academic. (Probably can operate any two reasonably well, much will depend on the driver, not tested)

Overall Review: Will buy another

Pros: If operational, it works as promised. Connected an XFX 6870 mini displayport to 1920x1080 monitor using the monitor's DVI plug. Worked well.

Cons: Ordered two: one worked, one did not. I've tried all the necessary combinations of monitors (3 identical 1920x1080, one 1200x1024, all known working), mini-displayports (two, working at least one at a time for sure, see other thoughts), dongles, and regular DVI (2 on the card, known working).

Overall Review: With two monitors (1200x and 1920x) hooked up to DVI on the card, if I used exactly one dongle at a time on one of the mini-DP and then on the other, CCC (Catalyst control center) would recognise a third monitor with a dongle, but not with its brother. (Yes, I did swap cables and monitors).

Pros: Gets hot with a 7200 rmp drive, which means it's good at dissipating heat. Slim.

Cons: The brushed aluminum cover is a marks magnet (small cosmetic drawback, really)

Overall Review: Here comes the "but": using it with a recent HP laptop this case is *very* sensitive to static electricity. A touch without grounding first, blows the link with the computer. No damage to data yet, but it wreaks any operation in progress. A different case by Acomdata does not have this problem, so maybe it's the disk, not the case. However, this case on my desktop does not have the static-zap issue. Go figure.

Pros: I needed a mac mini in my home office, in addition to my PC. Did not want the clutter of KVM duplicates. This KVM switch did the trick using my existing equipment, including a 1920x1200 DVI monitor.

Cons: I had to boot my new mac mini for the first time with direct connections to the monitor and KM. I tried with this KVM switch inserted, and the mac would not show any signs of life to the monitor. It is possible the initial handshake may not work.

Overall Review: After the initial difficulties everything so far (a few days) works almost like a charm. Minor drawback: Logitech software on the PC does not recognize the MX80 wireless USB mouse any more. Little issue.