Pros: •consumes 9 watts of power with one 4GB mem stick and 1 HP 4 port NIC. Important since this runs 7x24 providing me internet access, VOIP, cable,wifi. My old box box sucked down 70 watts with same configuration, so this thing pays for itself in 6 months •price after rebate was a smoking deal. I would say a great bargain at Newegg's price •BIOS was really impressive-- connects to the internet and downloads and installs BIOS updates for you. Sweet. •Fanless- no noise, no dusty failures down the road

Cons: •could not get this to boot of IPCop USB thumb drive. Not uncommon for the BSD IPCop distro, but a pain for me no less. I tried many different flavors of USB thumbdrive sizes and manufactures but no love. My workaround- cable up a CDRom drove to the mobo, install onto my SSD, shutdown and disconnect the CDRom.

Overall Review: It would boot off the following USB media without issue: Win8 install, Macrium, Ultimate Boot disk, PFSense. I tested to make sure I did not have port or mobo hardware issue - no eggs deducted, just an BSD IPCop thing.

Pros: •More free time with the family-- inserting this card brought my freeNAS project to a halt •I know what not to buy next time

Cons: •I will never get my money back •Earth's landfill will receive another ROHS compliant board

Overall Review: When inserted it would freeze on this boards "Hit Ctrl-R..." RAID menu boot option 4 times out of 5 attempts when disk were SATA attached. Remove the disk it worked better, what would be the point? Attached those same disk direct to the mobo, perfect boot. Look, if this thing acts flaky on boot why would I ever trust my NAS data to flow through it? Eighteen bones down the drain.

Pros: Size is nice for my ASRock Q1900M running an SSD and 4 port HP NIC for my IPCop box. Easy mobo install, good ventilation.

Cons: •Powersupply is not ideal for my setup. My kill-a-watt measured 17watts for my build. Swapped out the power supply for a Sparkle PS and it measured 9 watts and was much quieter. •The power cable to the power supply is fragile. In my switch of the power supply the cable must have been damaged (nothing visible- just stopped working). It took me an hour to figure it out--- I put everything back together again and it would not work. I removed their 12" bridge power cable and everything worked fine. OK, tossed that cable in the trash and ran my 3 foot power cable through the case straight to the power supply - minus 1 egg.

Overall Review: The power supply is at the front of the case, so they bridge the power supply to an external power plug input mounted to the rear of the case. This allows you to plug your cord from the wall into the back of the case. In between the rear mounted plug joiner is a 12" female to male power cable that plugs into the power supply, and the one in my box was junk.

Pros: Works with FreeNas. On my FoxCon Intel Atom dual core to two drives I average 63MB/s. Price is right.

Cons: None

Pros: Boots FreeNas. To make this happen I had to insert the thumb drive during or just after the FreeNas installation from CDRom process. Once it is installed it worked great. However, if you boot up with the thumbdrive already inserted during intial power up booting off the FreeNas install CD, the installer would fail (which was not the case testing my other thumbdrives). LED blinky is nice. Small- perfect size for always inserted boot device

Cons: Time it took to understand why this thumbdrive behaved different than my other two thumbdrives.

Pros: Setup: built a 4TB FreeNas file server that boots from USB thumb drive. Parts list: -Kingston 1GB memory (N82E16820144151) -Patriot 4GB USB stick (N82E16820220247) -Two Western Digital 2TB drives (N82E16822136514) -StarTech GigE eithernet card (N82E16833114004). Kill-A-Watt measured 44 KwH normal operation; 35KwH at Level64 Standbye. Small size, quiet, and case allowed me to drill 4 holes to add the second 5.25" drives. Temps are fine.

Cons: Only 2 SATA ports (if there was three I probably could stuff a third 2TB drive in it). No GigE network on the board Wake On LAN (WOL) does not work with the onboard NIC, or using the StarTech, but BIOS has managed settings, so this is defect in the BIOS.

Overall Review: If WOL worked I would make another unit with these same specs. With the GigE card I average 63MB/s through put. It is my first FreeNas build, 4TB, low power, quiet, very fast, and inexpensive.