Pros: My work laptop has SSD so it was natural for me to upgrade my personal laptop to a SSD. For $149, this was the best bang for the buck.

Cons: SSDs are still pricey, but hey, you gotta pay if you want performance.

Overall Review: Dunno why Chip (previous reviewer) made the comment this SSD doesn't work with SATA I. I have a two year old HP DV9700 with SATA I and it works like a charm. It is G1, but people are making too much out of TRIM. For average user (surf web, email, gaming, work, etc.), Intel G1 SSDs will last 5~7 years with no noticeable performance loss.

Pros: Here we go again people making a big deal about TRIM. I've had an Intel G1 SSD for a year (as well another non-Intel SSD without TRIM) and I can tell you for typical users, not having TRIM makes hardly any difference. First off Intel drivers are the best in the market and reduces write cycles to tenths of what other drivers cycle. Second, SSD memory is still faster than any HD even when well worn. Anyone who cares enough has read Anand's great papers on TRIM and even he acknowledges he is not overly concerned about TRIM and that it will only have marginal impact to typical user. Go look it up. Can't beat $250 for an Intel based 160GB SSD even if it's G1.

Cons: ~

Pros: What's the big deal over lack of TRIM? The previous poster's comment about wiping the drive every few month is plain silly. I guarantee he will not notice any performance hit after few months of using the x-18MG1. The use-induced performance drop on the G1 drives is only around 3~5%. Access latencies increase slightly, but they're still < 3ms.

Cons: Intel SSDs manage writes much more intelligently, requiring significantly lower NAND cycling over other makers. With multi-channel flash using native command queuing Intel SSDs (one of the reasons why Intel G1s cost twice as much as other SSDs when it came out) distribute read and write operations across the channels efficiently and reduces write/read cycles. For a 32GB SSD, Intel controller has to cycle 1500x to write 40TB of data while other controllers have to cycle 75,000x.

Overall Review: Everyone who's done research on SSD TRIM has read Anand's in-depth and well written article. However, even he closes his paper on TRIM with following: "While personally I'm not put off by the gradual slowdown of SSDs, I can understand the hesitation. In the benchmarks we've looked at today, for the most part these drives perform better than the fastest hard drives even when the SSDs are well worn."

Pros: Cheap. Bang for the buck. No brainer setup for typical home network. Speed is up to par with other G routers I've used.

Cons: Can't do vertical mount so I mount it upside down to the bottom of a closet shelf.

Overall Review: Didn't install the sw that came with the router. Not needed.

Pros: Price ($80 with rebate) and performance (near Intel x25-m SSD read performance.) Durability. I've killed a few HDs in my work laptop. Moving to SSD was a no brainer.

Cons: Still pricy in terms of gb/$, but got a good deal on this with rebate. No TRIM support, but I've read others were able to hack Intel's TRIM tool. Need to research more on this.

Overall Review: Work laptop so space wasn't an issue: Installed Win7, MS Office Ultimate, dozen other work apps and I still have about 10gb left.