Pros: Better drive than its spec sheet says?

Cons: Spec sheet included with the delivered drive is out of date/wrong?

Overall Review: The Pioneer site's page for this drive has it listed as BD-R dual layer write capable, but the included spec sheet lists it as compliant with BD-R ver. 2.0 and multilayer writing wasn't introduced to the standard until ver. 3.0

Pros: Both cards purchased are working nominally. Economically priced.

Cons: One of the two cards was a problem to get working. No known manufacturer support forum or knowledge base if problems arise.

Overall Review: I ordered two to update a pair of Tyan MPX motherboard based workstations. One system was fine immediately after the card and drivers were installed. The other took some head scratching, as it refused to connect reliably to LAN or Internet resources. After much searching for updated drivers without success (the newest were from 2004) the NIC finally started working after an uninstall, reboot, and re-install from Windows Device Manager. All is working now. The troublesome machine got an extra hard drive and a new video card as well, so perhaps a PSU upgrade is called for and it’s not the fault of the card, but the motherboard’s built-in Fast Ethernet continued to function normally even so. In all, I'd recommend spending a bit more if you can.

Overall Review: Build setup and install went without a hitch. Flashing to latest BIOS went exactly as it should. (I always have my systems on a UPS, just in case, anyway.) And it's been in constant use every day since without an issue. Exactly what I'd hope for in a component purchase.

Overall Review: Gorgeous aesthetics and performance overkill for my 1440p gaming setup. Definitely a keeper!

Overall Review: It simply works as advertised and seems well built.

Overall Review: It's functional but slightly larger than depicted. The image associated with the product seems to be of a similar but more compact item. My intended use case isn't for travel, but if it were I'd want to know its actual half-a-pack-of-smokes size.