Pros: I bought 30 of these drives 5 1/2 years ago for 2 servers. They were initially used as database servers and then repurposed as VM hosts. Out of 30 drives, I had 1 drive fail after 3 years and now 2 more (plus 2 more that are nearing end of life). I consider that to be an excellent track record.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I just purchased a few more of these today to replace the few bad ones.

Pros: This is an excellent monitor at a relatively excellent price. I bought two to complete a five monitor setup and neither has any dead pixels. The stand is high quality and easy to adjust and every cable is included. It also includes hidden speakers and the border is relatively narrow (a plus in multi-monitor setups). QuickFit is a very cool feature that I expect I will be using.

Cons: The DisplayPort cable that is included is not VESA compliant. This may cause you issues which I will get into at the end. VESA is the standards body that controls the DisplayPort specs. One VESA requirement for standard cables is that the "power out" pin, pin 20, is not to be connected (passed through). Only cables for specialized equipment use this pin. Both the monitor and your graphics card put 3.3 volts on this pin. The issues that this can cause: - BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) if your driver software doesn't properly handle this issue gracefully. - Shortened life or unexplained failures of your graphics card. - CPU fan or other components continue to run after computer has been shutdown. - Inability of the monitor to come "back to life" after the computer has gone into and then returned from sleep mode. The last item is the problem I was having and it causes my graphics card to think that the two monitors have been disconnected causing Windows to realign all my other monitors. To fix this, I put a tiny piece of tape over pin 20 and very carefully plugged the cable back into the monitor. It's not perfect though as I sometimes have to jiggle the cable if I've moved the monitor. A real pain and unfitting the otherwise quality of this product. Pin 20 is the pin closest to the angled corner. Other solutions would be to buy new cables or to disable sleep mode.

Overall Review: I am not doing any video or gaming. This is a professional setup at work.

Pros: I have been running 5 monitors for 7 years - 4 are 27" quad HD.

Cons: Windows has issues with displayport that it doesn't have with hdmi and as far as I know, none of the video cards attempt to address this flaw. Windows can detect when a displayport monitor is off and will try to rearrange all the windows onto the remaining screens. Sounds like a feature accept that it doesn't always put things back they way they were AND it goes through this rearranging everytime the monitor goes into sleep mode. The only solution is to change your power usage settings in Windows to never let the monitor sleep (you can still use the screensaver).

Overall Review: Come on! Running for 7 years!

Pros: Don't know since I can't use this in my settup.

Cons: The spec says Linux support but no Linux driver is available. The spec also says Used For: Consumer. Turns out this means that if you use this in a server, your warranty is voided. I've seen a lot of people ask if this can be used with ESXi. The answer is no!

Pros: Supermicro makes great cases and this one is no exception. - Hot swapable fans are easy to work with and removing them during the build makes running the cables easier. - There are slots under the backplane fans with little rubber flaps to block improper airflow while allowing cables to get the best path. - The included air shroud for concentrating airflow at the CPUs is well designed. There are many break off tabs to aid in adjusting the shrouds shape to accommodate your motherboard. - Putting the power button and lights on the handle to make room for the drives is ingenious. - Putting a port on the back to allow for a slim CD/DVD reader is also ingenious.

Cons: - I downloaded the manual before buying this to make sure it would work for me. I even checked the rack rail specs which state that this will fit a rack that is 26" deep. It won't. Minimum depth is a smidge over 26.5". And if you put this into a rack with doors, you will need to have at least 31" of clearance from the front post to the back door. There is no way to modify the rails and no other rails are available for this server. You can't even use third party universal rails because of the way the case is designed. - This case is very heavy and expensive. - I wish the backplane had all the SAS connections on the left side instead of spread out behind each drive in order to simplify cable management. You will need .6 meter cables for the right side and .5 for the left. This means that it doesn't work well to spread your SAS fanout cables width-wise even though that would be the most logical way to connect them (four columns of drives & four cables per fanout).

Overall Review: - I didn't have to wait too long to get to tech support and the guy did make an effort to find a solution. But in the end he said the only solution is to return the case for a refund. - I have built and installed many rackmount servers and this is the first time I found one that didn't fit. Unfortunately, I didn't find out until after I had put in an enormous amount of time designing & building and then installing and setting up all the software. There is no way I am going to send back this case and go through the build again. I am forced to use up valuable rack space with a sliding shelf which is itself an expensive component. But that isn't the worse thing. I did two of these servers at the same time.

Pros: - This case is easy to work with and has lots of space under the motherboard tray for cable management. The bowed out sides really help in this regard. - The 200mm fans are very quiet even at the highest speed (yes, you can still hear them). - I love the big power button at the top and the fact that you can turn off the fan lights. - The positioning of the front panel USB ports, eSata, etc. is very convenient. - The design of the top panel allows you to put things on top of the case without worrying about blocking the top fan. This also doubles as excellent carrying handles for moving the final build.

Cons: - Since the lower hard drive cage is turned sideways, it would be nice if they used a simple SAS/SATA backplane to simplify the adding/removing of drives later. - The 200mm fans are two pin instead of 3 which means you can't bypass the controller and connect directly to the motherboard. Also, the wiring for the fans is a mess. Don't forget to connect a power cable directly to this mess. - The power and hard drive lights are unbelievably bright. I ended up covering them with two sheets of colored paper to get something reasonable.

Overall Review: - Another reviewer complained about having to break off tabs from the bottom fan mount to fit their oversized power supply. You can instead completely unscrew the mount by first removing the bottom of the case. Easy. - I added a fan to the side panel with the air blowing into the case and it actually caused the temperature of the CPU and motherboard to rise. I guess the resulting turbulence interferes with proper airflow. I will probably make an air shroud for the CPU instead. - I normally use Antec cases but the one I wanted for this specific build was not available. I think I like the Sniper better.

I received the following email on the day I got an RMA for their product. After about two weeks, I have not received the refund promised. -------------------------------------- Hello, because I staff delivery error, bring you trouble, I will apply for a full refund for you, as soon as possible products don't need to return, you can apply for to cancel my bad review?