Pros: Excellent sound quality. Significantly better than the speakers I have, which is annoying because I have headphones good enough to tell me that my speakers aren't up to the challenge. Looks quite nice.

Cons: No Vistax64 support for optical. But I think that shouldn't be too long in coming... I hope. This might just be me, but I had a little bit of difficulty getting it into my pci-e slot - but that is probably just my case.

Overall Review: If you are going for surround sound (gaming!) via optical and are using Vistax64, you might want to wait until the new driver comes out (or suck it up and live with no optical for a little while).

Pros: Reasonably priced. Looks good installed.

Cons: Got the SCSI error when burning a disc that is common with this drive. The registry repairs you can find online/on M$ were unsuccessful. Forced to wait an hour for chat support to say there is nothing to do but RMA it. Too bad as I was otherwise happy with the drive.

Overall Review: I am losing confidence in ASUS. Seems like their hardware is 50/50 anymore.

Pros: Cheap. With everything installed, it is still lighter than a laptop. No annoying case gimmicks.

Cons: I haven't used and don't trust the power supply to run anything I care about. The screws included are ridiculously cheap - be careful not to over-tighten them. Metal bends very easily. No cable management - but I knew that when I bought it.

Overall Review: Flaws and all, I am actually pretty happy with this case. It looks good and the install was painless.

Pros: Tool-less. Easy to fiddle with. Reasonably good cooling for my drives. Holds two SSDs. Very well made. Enough side-mounting holes that I can tune where it sits in the 3.5" bay.

Cons: Tight fit getting it into my 3.5" bay - shaved a little plastic off getting it in. Will not work with angled connectors - the connectors for two drives are too close together for them to fit. This is just my preference, but I do not like that the 2.5" drives sit so far forward - my cables have to go farther and the connectors not being in line with my 3.5" drives puts stress on the power connectors of the SSDs in the cradle and the drives above/below it.

Overall Review: I'm a buyer when it's on sale for one picture of Mr. Lincoln - any more than that is more than I feel the minor convenience of it being tool-less is worth.

Pros: Lasted 5 years problem free.

Cons: Finally started being a little weird 5 years in. Gave warnings before it died.

Overall Review: Didn't fry my pc going out.

Pros: It works, I guess, just not as I intended. They included a tiny screw driver so I didn't have to get mine out of the drawer two feet away.

Cons: It will not power off the front two ports of my desktop. It will power off two of my precious rear ports, but I really don't want to plug it in there as those ports are usually full. The Y-cable is too short for comfort. No external power supply option or on/off switch(knew this coming in though). Also, I don't know a nice way to say this, it smells like it has been in close proximity with the wrong end of a large animal with a potent digestive disorder. I'm serious. It smells really bad. If I had known before I purchased it, I DEFINITELY would not have done so.

Overall Review: I think next time I'd keep shopping until I found a unit that either A- invariably worked using one USB port and no external power supply or B- invariably worked using one USB port with an external power supply.