Joined on 11/16/05
Nice Cheap Working Card
Pros: Cost Effective Easy to work with
Cons: Somehow the numbers got reversed on box Label as compared to the website. It doesn't matter because all the products in this line (Chipset) used same driver package.
Overall Review: I bought this a cheap fix for a bad motherboard controller. My SDDs are now running about 15% slower but I had no issues with booting my old windows installation. I dropped the card in and it booted. I installed the drivers after the system was booted. This is branded as IOCrest but the manual indicates it's a Syba Product.
Just Avarage
Pros: Wifi is strong Comes with 4.2.2 Comes with cables.
Cons: Cost! unless you want the audio outs there's cheaper Quads around. No USB keyboard mapping for some of the "soft" navigation keys. There should have been at least a "open the pop-up window" key.
Overall Review: Not as fast as tegra chips (and not as fast as I expected), I may have been better off with on of those android “gaming” boxes. Adobe flash only runs in their provided browser. Saw some video lag / frame skipping but I haven't done any tweaking. A full SD slot seems to have been an odd choice.
Slightly Disappointed
Pros: Personally, I like how thin it is. It leaves some room for air flow. Nice and quiet so far.
Cons: I don't see a performance increase on a sata 6.0Gb controller. My tests show only about a 1 MB/sec variation between a 3 & 6. It also seems have a ridiculous speed drop off rate on large writes.
Overall Review: I wouldn't say it's a bad choice but there's better drives out there. This drive is best used for lots of small files. I wouldn't recommend it for things like drive images or virtual disks.
Works
Pros: Seems to work
Cons: No speaker so it's hard to tell how the call is being answered.
Overall Review: I don't have much to compare it too but it seems slow. The vista 64 drivers worked on my win 7 machine. My win 7 32 bit machine picked up the driver automatically.
Works
Pros: It's a hub, it works well. Cords are decent length. The base comes off.
Cons: Non that I can think of.
Overall Review: The metal base seems slightly magnetic ... not sure if it was intentional or not.
Avarage
Pros: Price
Cons: It's physically very small. If your used to a full sized keyboard then I'd pass on this one.
Overall Review: I should have looked at the pictures more closely.