Pros: Good sound quality, you don't have to strap it to your face, it's USB so no signal noise, simple. Works. Not too quiet either, which is a big thing with cheap mics. Big green light indicates power. Useful.

Cons: It sits on the table, so if there is noise on the table, you get noise recorded. I guess I mean it reverberates noise from whatever it's sitting on too well.

Overall Review: I didn' t have the "stand falling down" problem, but then I don't move it much. When the power switch is IN, it's off. Whatever...

Pros: Cheap. Acceptable size, not that I have a card to compare with...

Cons: I have had bad experiences with Trendnet before, but I read all the good reviews and decided to give this card a try. Unfortunately...I now have a worse impression of Trendnet than before. What happened is I plugged the card in, and it worked...at about 15% of the speed of my USB adapter I wanted to replace! I tried about 4 drivers including the ones Fly boy suggested, called Trendnet who could only suggest downgrading security in an effort to boost bandwidth, and that did not help. I suspect the problem lies with my network, but, nonetheless, the performance was horrible regardless of the distance to the router and I had to return the card.

Overall Review: You get what you pay for. I hope a more expensive card doesn't prove this card's worth. I already spent a pile of time and money on this one, for naught.

Pros: Works Fast Has internal ports The Price Is Right

Cons: Every single time the computer boots, this "darn" thing wants to throw its own boot process into the mix, so it does take several seconds per boot. I never use RAID, I just wanted a SATA controller, but I was dumb and had to get a RAID card "just in case..." This thing's HDD light output is broken. I don't know what the problem is, but the pins for that light don't do anything, and I've tried swapping wires every which way to get it going. When I connected two drives (not RAID) I started getting major file corruption issues and stop errors, which terrified me. Seems to happen even if I use the motherboard for one older disk and this card for the main one. So...either use RAID or just one SATA disk, or else. I have to take out an egg for that.

Overall Review: So, this is PCI-E x2. You can put it in a x2 slot. You can put it in a x4 slot. Or wherever. But, know this. Any modern SSD will saturate the PCI-E bus completely. It's kind of dumb to have to use a PCI-E bus for this. So you will get the best performance if you put this in a 16x slot even though it's a 2x card (it will use the extra bandwidth). Actually, your SSD performance will be bottlenecked therefrom. 390MB read, 330MB write, on my SSD that's capable of over 500MBps, but that's the limit of the 2x PCI-E slot. But, if you have a graphics card on a neighboring 16x slot, guess what? Your graphics card will fight your hard drive controller for bandwidth! So, less FPS if you do that. Plus, idiotically, there's a "faster" 16x slot and a slower one. So choose your device locations with care... My advice is to avoid this if you can by using a SATA III motherboard. I mean, it's not the card's fault this happens, PCI-E is just what is available and this is just what happens when you dump all that data onto the bus. That said, it's way faster than (over 100MB/s) SATA II.

Pros: Bought to replace a G NETGEAR from 2006 which has problems with newer encryption and really slow, in spite of an "excellent signal." This rosewill gets a good signal and can maximise my bandwidth when it wants to (8Mb/1MB per second). So what I mean is that an ethernet connection will of course be more reliable and such, but this is a good adapter. Includes a cool USB extension base if you feel like mounting an unsightly antenna somewhere. Software tells you the EXACT % of signal strength in real time, so you don't have to guess with windows telling you it's "good." UPDATE: 1-2017 So, I have had this thing SIX years. I have no particular expectation it will ever stop working. It does exactly what it should do. I never load the software (I just use Windows' since it's simpler, less resources). So in addition to working great for a wireless device, it costs next to nothing now. Woah. Adding a star.

Cons: Like any wireless device, it can be useless if there's some interference around (not discussing signal strength). Sticks out a bit for the sake of the pivoting antenna (though you could go with the base if you need).

Overall Review: I did this also to avoid using a PCI or PCIE port on my claustrophobic mini-ATX board, so only a USB port is used.

Pros: Works. Tough. Does what it needs to do. The power input can be a pro or a con. Pro if you use it, con if you don't want to buy the adaptor and have a random wire poking out of an awkwardly jutting out piece. I bought this in 2008. I just now replaced it - it still works perfectly, I just wanted something that didn't stick out like a sore thumb. So this thing works forever, I guess. Cheap!

Cons: Sticks out from laptops. I was always afraid to handle the laptop with this in. So...I bought another card that's approximately flush. That one doesn't seem to have the tough build quality or tight USB ports of this one, but way less annoying, so I can leave it in.

Overall Review: NEVER disconnect/reconnect this while USB drives are connected. I fried a controller that way. Of course, that goes for any PCMCIA USB card.

Pros: Using a SATA III controller which is PCIe lane limited to 2x, I get 325MBps reading seq., 275MBps writing seq. DXtory (the most critical benchmark...) reported initially 260MBps, then just now 208MBps. I ran TRIM and now it's 240MBps, but realistically it went down to 208MBps, in the real world. Compare that to my Intel X25-M, which theoretically writes at 80MBps, but DXtory declared it was 29MBps, which would make it worse than many newer electromechanical hard drives. So the reading speed is about 75MBps (~25%) over my X25-M, the theoretical writing speed is about 400% higher than the 80MBps of my X-25M. Does this mean my new 840 pro will end up writing at 120MBps? If it does, it'll be a hell of a lot better than 30MBps...

Cons: Expensive. But then, I just bought 238GB of memory, basically $1 per GB. Wow. Actual size: 238GB (256 billion bytes). Samsung is convinced a megabtye is 1000 kilobytes. At least some manufacturers are honest about it and say it's a 240GB disk. That's 18GB of lies and marketing. Reliability?? Let's just say I won't be erasing my X-25M (which I have used since 2010) quite yet.

Overall Review: In a proper computer, this disk should be much faster, but I bumbled my way into one with SATA II and only one PCIe port above 2x (in spite of it being a 16x slot). Board was MSI P55M-GD45. Weighs about as much as a couple oreos.