Pros: I received a bare "OEM" drive, as I would expect based on the description. You too will receive no cables, or any software, but that is OK. Seagate makes drive installation easy with Seatools that you can download for free from their site and run on a USB stick or burn to CD/DVD media. The drive itself is 3.5" form factor, the dimensions and other basic specifications are listed here. its 2TB unformatted, so just like your file cabinet could hold 2 million or trillion pages without folders, this could hold its full 2TB, but to work right it needs formatting for the system its installed in, so you end up with around 1.81TB of useable space on a Windows system. Its advanced 4K clusters, when the drive natively stores data it has to store them in segments, and for years drives and Operating Systems used smaller segments. Since data has grown, storage size needed to grow, and smaller segments were not efficient. Its Sata III interface, which allows for higher burst data rates, but is not saturated by the drive's read and write capabilities. Speed. The main factor in many purchasing choices. Multiple passes of HD Tune Pro shows the following. Read 212MBps Peak uncached. Average 156MBps uncached Lowest 122MBps uncached. Burst 212MBps uncached Average seek time was around 13-14ms, lower than advertised. I mention uncached, as that is the speed of the heads writing and writing to the platters, not using the 64MB of buffer or cache memory. It shows what the drive is truly capable of. With the buffer enabled the cached read/write speed varies depending on what is already in the buffer for files, but it was between 200 and 320MBps. Filling the Que length up to 32 showed the drives 64MB of cache and logic was well matched up, the drive never stalled even when performing reads and writes of a mix of mismatched small 1Kb and 64Kb files. the drive exhibited no noise beyond what I would consider normal in operation and wake. It was running much cooler than the 750GB drive it replaced. All in all it is a solid product.*

Cons: None I encountered.

Overall Review: I used my test drive after running it in an existing windows install with seatools I cloned the existing drive and its now been running through many virus scans, defragments, installations, uninstallations, and very heavy use. It is a China made drive, but I have had no issues with it and after another month of successful use the prior drive will be formatted.

Pros: Small, prebuilt, cheap.

Cons: USB booting is questionable. I have tried multiple sticks and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Random BSOD even during windows install. 70C + temps during normal use despite two fans? System fan should have a plastic cover pulling air across the CPU heatsink, as it is when the RAM is populated and optical drive is installed the airflow is minimal at best causing the higher temps. Fan noise is noticeable in a quiet room. Custom power supply means when it dies the whole thing may be useless. Included Sata cables aren't long enough for use with both optical drive and hard drive, I had to change the cable going to my HDD.

Overall Review: I bought this for a skype box, and it worked well until the hard drive died, not sure what caused it to die, and have replaced it with a new 1TB drive. However some issues during windows instal have caused me to question the system as a whole, and I am further testing it before it gets released back into production environment.

Pros: PCIe, Digital and Analog tuner, plus FM radio. AV stream capture, through video, S-Video, or coaxial. Cheap, and works with the hardware component to upscale and accelerate video in WMC from all sources. Works with X64 versions of Vista, 7, and 8.

Cons: included Arcsoft software is disappointingly slow on a fast computer. Issues with trying to digitize old VHS tapes, would work perfectly for a couple seconds then go to static in the Arcsoft software. FM doesn't work in WMC.

Overall Review: I didn't try to use the included remote as I bought one from rosewill for all of nine bucks that works very well, and has included mouse functions. You can just download the driver package from the ATI/AMD website for this and it works perfectly fine with WMC without the need to install the bloated and slow arcsoft. I am not sure if it is part of some attempt at copy protection that is preventing me from converting my old VHS tapes into digital copies, but it will not pass, I will find a way, I bought and own the movies, and new versions on DVD have "special content" that I don't want in my movies. Came with a cute little set of rabbit ears, works for local channels just fine. WMC will schedule recordings, and you can edit where it saves them at (not on my SSD's!!) but Arcsoft doesn't let you choose? Well worth the price, especially with a good rebate, even with a few flaws.

Pros: Some unique content available. Some streams are higher quality.

Cons: What started as a great idea from Hulu quickly became noting more than what cable companies already offer, pay to watch ads!!! What a great idea!!! http://www.hulu.com/support/article/20356372 Lack of supported devices, other companies don't make you suffer for their lack of ability to program. HTML5? Whats that, a lighter bandwidth stream allowing for higher quality or slower connection, nah, can't have that we need to protect our stream that any flash down loader can already......um, what were we talking about? Numerous other sites have content that end users have received free over the airwaves and have transcoded to commercial free legal downloadable episodes, of high quality, and did I mention they are free. We are sorry, flash has crashed, please watch another minute of commercials to get back to where you were in the episode, its the least we can do. Want to skip ahead? Let us show you commercials to make up for it!! Is this ad relevant to you? No? Great we will now play it for the next two weeks!

Overall Review: So with Hulu free you get to pay for your internet connection, and watch their ads to pay for the content and their profit. With Hulu plus you get to pay for your internet connection, and watch their ads to pay for the content and their profit, and the extra is to watch older episodes that are free and commercial free elsewhere, but you don't have to use Google to find them, so there is that...... Much like paying for outdated cable where you pay for the service, and then watch the ads and have a limited selection of on demand, but wait....cable on demand is ad free too......... I am not really sure why anyone pays for Hulu plus unless they don't know how to use the internet. They don't have a WMC snap in they support anymore, and their beta desktop app they made was buggy, with some hacking it together it can work but if you are that good you already know how to not use Hulu plus. I have had and tried Hulu plus, and grew tired of watching ads for content I was already paying for, and the delivery I was paying for, only to not be able to use it on any internet and flash capable device without work.

Pros: Easy to setup, if you can setup your smartphone and type you can setup this device. Integrated storage, no more small thumb drives limiting storage space, or having another device hanging off the side and more wires. Dual band 2.4 and 5Ghz can both use the same key, and also has WPS with a button on the front. Guest access, I can give friends and family access to the internet without giving access to my network and files. DNS relay, stores DNS lookups for faster web browsing. Lights on the front are informative while not blinding you at night. USB port can charge phones and seems to provide at least 1A. I put it in my network first by just plugging it directly into my PC only, and was able to get it setup by going to the IP listed in the setup sleeve. Then I reset it and added it inline with my network and it changed its IP scheme automatically to avoid issues with the existing router. Runs cool, I took mine apart and found the CPU and two radios were generating all the heat, and its significantly less than what a laptop, tablet, or phone is expected to endure, plus a study published by the largest internet search company shows HDD temperature has almost nothing to do with its death, except cold HDD's die faster. Remote access on my phone was a good feature, I could remotely upload photos and videos, view them from anywhere, and stream music with ease. Laptop HDD inside means it can take heat, bumps, and vibration from sound systems and other devices around it. 2TB of storage, before anyone complains, with formatting it comes out to 1.82TB, formatting takes up space just like file folders take up space in a filing cabinet. Software included on the storage, and it can be deleted. No appreciable latency added to internet is a big plus, no speed reduction issues either. Multiple ways to access the integrated storage, FTP, network share, WD2go app, DLNA, and many others, it is simple to transfer files to. Free app WD2Go allows remote access to media up and down, and as well once home on the local network*.

Cons: Biggest con is how slow the drive interface is, based on the actual drive it is more than likely the issues is a poorly implemented USB interface inside the router. FTP speeds of zipped archives in sizes from a few hundred MB to 12GB, folders with varying file types and sizes show 6.5-14MBps, windows explorer network mapped drive was a little better at 7-22MBps depending on files. Second on my list is the power supply, it is a plug in transformer, my original Nintendo has one of these and it was a bad idea then. Give me a power brick or at least a longer power cord, or with all the extra space in it...put it inside the unit. No wall mount or stand, so it will take up some room on or under something unless you want to tape or tie it up, and since there are no vents to cover, which brings me to the next point. A fan? Seriously, a fan on the bottom that does what? There are no vents, I took it apart I know, and the fan is going to allow dust into the unit with what little air it does stir around in it. Last is just a minor complaint about the integrated WD2Go app's media player, I used my Samsung phone, while it played many files fine, some didn't play at all and wouldn't ask to use the phones media player when they didn't. Transfer speed shows multiple HD streams may have issues. Wifi range is average, external antennas would help.

Overall Review: It uses a atheros ar8327n chip for the gigabit interface, has two seperate shielded radios inside, and the CPU with a ceramic heat spreader over the emi shield to (questionably) help cool it. There are six antennas (three for each band) placed around the front and sides of the unit, those handy with a soldering iron will be able to improve on them. I was using firmware 1.03 which was on the device as shipped to me, since most people wouldn't upgrade until they called tech support I didn't either, it was flawless except a few minor latentcy spikes when skipping around in streaming high bitrate media served from the internal HDD, and downloading from the internet while testing. I had SSD's for source and destination drives when testing file transfers from and to it so it is not a bottleneck anywhere except the router for the transfer speed. With a few minor upgrades like external antennas, a faster/better HDD interface, removing the useless fan, and changing the power supply it would easlily be worth a 10-20% premium. It is a tough little unit to beat, and one I would reccomend to almost anyone looking for something new, easy and effective. Reason for 4 eggs instead of 5? Slow HDD speed, power supply, wifi range, and lack of mounts.

Pros: Easy to setup, I have setup many other firewalls/switches/WAP's and as some go this one is laid out in a very organized manner. For most beginner users it may be a bit daunting at first, but once you have the basics down the rest of the setup is easy. PIN based wifi security, and the ability to choose enterprise level encryption and have it work well surprised me. VPN support that works with many devices without the need for any additional software. Routing and forwarding options to allow a user to run multiple devices and make them accessible for different needs, gaming server, file server, web server..... My only complaint about it is the media server, it works, and is as fast as the USB2.0 specification allows for, I used a USB 3.0 Seagate 500GB drive and it works well, but the setup is difficult, and the handling of files and mixed media is poor. It works, but instead of windows 7 creating the same layout as is on my computer it is just jumbled together. I tested this unit with factory firmware, it can be loaded with custom, but with what I do it works as is. Gigabit Ethernet handles jumbo frames, the wifi range is as good or better as my netgear with a upgraded antenna which is to say excellent, and the ability to handle multiple transfers without any user slowdown was great.

Cons: Media server setup and file handling.

Overall Review: I was looking for a better gigabit hub to upgrade my home network, this is so much more than that, it is everything I wanted and needed, plus some great options in one, and will give me some room to grow my network even more. I may try some custom firmware to see if the media handling is better, but overall media storage is the reason I have almost 8TB of storage in my computer.