Pros: I used a few of these to modify a couple Regular Nintendos, and an XBox. I ran out of room for a power supply with the motherboards in these boxes, so after they were gutted, and cleaned out, then retrofitted with all of the necessary computer components, I was able to use the PicuPSU's to plug in to the 24pin power connectors, and mount my own new power plug that allowed me to have basically a laptop power supply outside the computer, allowing the mini inventions of mine to remain perfectly silent as intended, while still being able to utilize the complete use of the computer.

Cons: The only thing in my opinion that could make these better is if they could somehow reach the 300watt power levels with out the heat issues. Also, a few of the wires on one of my PSU's were not soldered all the way, and when the case was shut, broke the connection to the circuit board. I had to re-solder them at an angle to make them work properly, but still cost me a half hour of build time scratching my head trying to figure out what went wrong. Wasn't too bad when I finally had my coffee and looked at it again though lol

Overall Review: These are a LOT cheaper elsewhere ($40-60 with the power adapter included usually) so never just buy something with out looking. You might pay half the price with other reputable vendors.

Pros: -The price per TB is incredible. -Great drive for RAID 1 or RAID 0

Cons: I have purchased 12 of these drives, and so far 1 hard drive has gone bad within the first month, and a 2nd drive went within 100 operating hours. I have all of them in a RAID 5 configuration, even with minimal system access the drives sill went bad. Also these run extremely hot, ventilation, or in my case, Koolance HD-60 coolers are REQUIRED or they will cook themselves and fail.

Overall Review: I'm using an Areca 12 port SATA card, the overall speed seems horrible for a RAID 5 when they were all running (under 200MB/s) but when it was still working was absolutely great. Tech support claimed these drives could work in a RAID 0 or a RAID 1 efficiently but a RAID 5 was "untested" and recommended a enterprise drive for RAID 5, which costs 3.25x more per TB.

Pros: -8 Individual SATA II Ports -Expansion Capabilities (suck as battery backup) -Small Card Overrall great for tight builds -Onboard Chip Cooler (mine was actually seated properly)

Cons: The starting instructions are incredibly vague. I had to fight with the controller when I lost a drive to actually use the new drive and write to it (apparently you need to set the new drive as a "Hot Swap", then go to rebuild array and it will start rebuilding, I did it inside Windows 7 with the web interface). When it finally took, the card was automatically set in low priority, and I still haven't figured out how to change it to high priority, so a RAID 5 with 255gb of data took almost 30 hours to complete, which needless to say, sucked.

Overall Review: I was able to set up the controller pretty quick when I disabled the RAID controller on the motherboard, I was able to see the controller in the BIOS. I set the new RAID 5 with the 8 drives, but even in high priority mode took 3 days to initialize, that hurt but I was leaving for a while anyways so was fine). Then I had to enable the onboard RAID which disabled being able to see the RAID controller in the BIOS, which was ok since I can't boot to 10+TB anyways. After Windows 7 installed I just was able to modify all the system setup stuff in Windows so I didn't need to see it booting up anymore. MSI 870a-g54 Athlon 1090T 6core AM3 CPU 1350watt PSU 2x 320gb SATA II Raid 0 Primary Boot 8x 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7.2k RPM RAID 5 3x Plextor SATA DVD RW ATI Radeon 9250 Custom Liquid Cooling for GPU, NB, SB, HDD(x10), CPU Full Tower Case USB 802.11n Draft

Pros: I did like the over all layout of the board, and easy to read tags for the individual USB / Audio plugs on the board, and the extra USB ports on the back.

Cons: With that being said I have loads of issues with this board: 1.) Tech support - non existant, all you get is smart aleck remarks and condensending people who think they are above you, and would rather ridicul you than get answers to your questions, especially on their horrible "forums" as they like to call it. 2.) The heat sinks were not seated right on my board, I checked before I turned on the computer so removed them, removed the cheap thermal paste and put on arctic silver and re-seated the heat sinks properly 3.) If you add a PCI-e card that the motherboard already has a function for, IE 2nd raid controller, ethernet / wifi card, the board will only let you use 1. Either Motherboard OR addon, no exceptions.

Overall Review: After seeing everything thats been going on, I won't yell at anyone for my mistakes of ignoring all the negative feedback for this manufacturer (MSI), so I will now be returning to ASUS, where I know their equipment actually works, and if it doesn't, they have people who are more than willing to help.

Pros: Great product for the price. Upgraded from a AM2 4800 dual core, and I'll never go back. The architecture is starting to compete with some of Intels CPU's in the compareable price range.

Cons: The Deneb is around the corner and I just bought a Phenom....

Overall Review: The temperature of AMD's is usually a problem, and in such cooling is not a luxury its a necessity. The stock fan will do fine for a while, but you will always want to get the upgraded with something that has more power to ensure proper life time.