Pros: High manufacture quality. Solid reliability for servers that *must* run 24/7/365.

Cons: Pricey! ....Recently purchased boards may ship with very old BIOS which won't POST using 42xx series CPU's.

Overall Review: I've got three of these boards in servers. They work properly "out of the box" with 4184 CPU's. However, they won't POST with 42xx CPU's without flash upgrading to the latest BIOS (3.02 as of this review). The most substantial system I've got with this board so far is: 2 x 4238 CPU's, 64GB ECCRAM with multiple PCI-E HD/RAID controllers (running Debian Linux). Performance is thoroughly impressive.

Pros: none if the units fail within weeks or months!

Cons: Bought 2 switches as emergency spares and finally needed them. Installed the first switch and it failed within a few months. Replaced with the second. It failed within several weeks! Both are out of their 1 year warrenty period. grrrr.

Overall Review: Both of these switches were installed in a cool office setting. Replaced with Netgear units, which have worked great.

Pros: Works perfectly for me with any recent Linux kernels.

Cons: This is NOT what I'd call a "RAID" adapter, since it's software RAID!!! I would NEVER use this card in place of a true hardware RAID controller! If you need true hardware RAID, spend the extra $$$ and get a higher-end board!!!

Overall Review: This board performs very well for SATA III JBOD use. I have several installed with various 1+ TB drives and use Linux kernel-based MD RAID. I've never had any problems at all--even with hot swap. I'm guessing users who have had problems may have Motherboard compatibility issues or something else going on....I'm buying more of these cards right now---that's why I looked at the reviews!

Pros: Fantastic UNMANAGED switch for the money.

Cons: None yet!

Overall Review: We've got several of these switches installed now and they all see MASSIVE quantities of 100/1000mb traffic....And haven't skipped a beat so far! On a side note, the manual that comes with the switch says that it supports 802.3x flow control. And, my server ethernet cards recognize and use flow control fine (for what that's worth).