Pros: My X2 6400 was taking 9 hours to render a 2 1/4 hour video with 2 edits/effects and stayed pegged at 100% the entire time, this processor does a similar render in about 2 1/2 hours and runs at about 70% average allowing me to use the system for other things while rendering... it rocks. I expected to have to o/c it a bit but it appears unnecessary. Temps <50 C with the stock AMD fan.

Cons: None that I've found.

Overall Review: M4N98TD EVO mobo, 8G Patriot PGV38G1600ELK.

Pros: With the included DVD Architect 5 it renders and burns menu based BluRay.

Cons: The UI is less pleasing to the eye than the one that Vegas 9 Pro provided, and it takes from 22-26+ hours for a 1920x1080 render for bluray on a 6-core machine (the BD renders appear to be single threaded, a 1 or 2-core machine would likely be faster). Although by my reading of bluray standards indicates support for 1440x1080 29.97i I'm unable to find a way to get it accepted by the software, it invariably seems to force one to chose either a different framerate or to pillarbox to 1920x1080.

Overall Review: I avoided Cyberlink due to other reviewers difficulties with the software installs, I'm sorry I did as power director seems to have a good reputation. I only bought this product for the DVD architect component, it forced me to educate myself on alternative methods and although somewhat complex, I am now using only free software to render and burn blu-ray, it is far faster with equivalent or better results. If the product was returnable I'd return it, it's of no use to me. I read on the web there are ways to reduce the render time by rendering from movie studio "just so", but for all the gyrations required I'll use other methods. I feel like I've "been had" by Sony with respect to this product. The product will get a video onto a BD with a menu, and if time is of no concern it is adequate to that task.

Pros: Fast- my old NAS's only made 12MB/second or so despite being Gb connections, this one peaks over 100GB/second and averages 91 GB/sec doing Linux dumps.

Cons: You can't set it up to directly mount the individual drives (as is true with other NAS's I own) as the volume id is not exposed in the path to it, but you can set up folders i.e. Public1 and Public2 each pointing at a particular drive and achieve the same result by pretending that each is a drive. Running 2 4TB barracuda's in it.

Pros: It has done everything I wanted it to do flawlessly. My first BD burner, it burns flawlessly at 7.8-8.0x on 4x BDs, the only "coasters" so far were due to lousy input, they play fine on a standalone player.

Cons: None that I've found

Overall Review: I had to buy an add-on SATA card to drive it, my 5 internal connecters were all used up with hard drives. It is OEM, so no cables, screws, or directions. Although I haven't burned a BD with Linux on it, it is recognized just fine and neither Linux nor windows needed any special drivers. I've yet to purchase an LG product that I wasn't happy with.

Pros: Colors seem excellent, seems to handle all the various formats well.

Cons: The TV shows no shadow detail on the default settings and shadows are very dark regardless of what input is used and what drives it. The only way to get shadow detail is to run the contrast down to 10% and run the brightness up to about 70%+. This seems to provide a very acceptable picture but not perfect due to the necessary loss of contrast.

Overall Review: If I had paid the retail price I would most likely have sent it back, at the price I got it for it is acceptable.

Pros: Stuck an old IDE from an ancient windows box into this, plugged it into a linux box (Debian Lenny), mounted it as NTFS, and all the data on the drive was accessible. No additional drivers were necessary for Linux.

Cons: As others have mentioned its a bit of a tight fit and one must be careful not to mangle the ribbon cable on the stops in the tray during insertion, ditto for the LED cable when putting the cover on. It's not like the general external SATA "just shove it in" external boxes, but it does the job.

Overall Review: I kept a couple ancient machines around just to be able to read IDE attached drives and now I can dispose of them. I haven't tried it with Windows thus far but based on other reviews I expect no problems.

I've dealt with them directly and through "marketplace" and I've never had any issues with them.