Pros: If you're a PC tech, fix your family's computer problems, or have a lot of old drives and such laying around, this is a very handy device to have. Worked on Windows 7 (64bit), Vista (32bit), and XP successfully Was able to retrieve data off of some really old 90's hard drives I had laying around from my uncle's PC. Retrieved old pictures and data just fine. SATA and IDE connectors worked great.

Cons: Gotta keep everything in the box for storage because its not pretty to have laying out when people come over.

Overall Review: Will impress your family members that you can hot swap drives without restarting the PC.

Pros: Does what it says it does. Working perfectly so far. Love the card readers. Too bad it doesn't support micro sd :(...whatever though

Cons: The top of it has a soft plastic feel to it. Easily scratched...but no big deal. Should it ever fail...it'll be the only real con.

Overall Review: Seems to be "self sufficient". I hooked it up to my NetGear WNDR3700 and the router actually managed to recognize the drives that were hooked up to it. I note this because the router's manual says the router doesn't support anything that involves drivers/software installation/execution.

Pros: I've only used the SATA to USB converter functionality for data recovery on numerous drive so far, but it has worked perfectly every time. I have no complaints.

Cons: None. Power cord is long enough, USB is length is fine, it's reliable - no cons.

Overall Review: My boss is buying one since it works so well.

Pros: Multiple device capability. Works. Price. Though Ubuntu capability is not mentioned it works with ubuntu. Maybe better than with windows.

Cons: I didn't find any.

Overall Review: The CF card slot looks a bit scary, but I do not think, there is much one can do about that. There are so many pins and one needs to be careful while inserting the card.

Pros: Everything works just fine. It's an awesome tool for me as a PC tech because I can back up any type of hard disc with one device, and if I need to there's an SD card adapter built in.

Cons: Power supply is iffy, but has worked fine so far.

Overall Review: Be careful not to short-circuit anything on the disc drive while you are operating it.

Pros: This product is easy to use and it works!!! You can now access EVERY Hard Drive or CD/DVD/BR Drive you own. It works with ALL SATA and PATA devices.

Cons: None

Overall Review: VANTEC makes great quality products.

Pros: Cool device for the techie! Easy way to get at loose drives without having to find something to physically install then in.

Cons: Only downside I found was it doesn't do well with old (I mean *really* old) IDE drives. Was going through old drives removing useful stuff and erasing them (for disposal), could just cycle drives through the adapter until I got to the really old pile (15-30 yrs old). Had to put them in an old PC to clean them up. Anything 200MB (Mega) or larger should work.

Overall Review: Went through about 20 drives, except for the really old IDEs went fine. Sometimes have to hunt for where Windows hides the disk (Disk Management) and assign a drive, but that's a generic USB 'feature'.

Pros: The card readers still work well. Many available formats. Nice power toggle for ease of powering up and down.

Cons: The HDD reader (SATA) will connect and format in its own format, but nothing else reads the data. All other systems sees two partitions instead of one. All other working drives, when connected to it will not properly read. I may have trashed a perfectly good drive thinking it was bad.

Overall Review: I never knew this device was bad until I formatted an HDD with it, found nothing else read it. I did the inverse, tried reading other HDDs with it, but the device would always fail. It would be great if you are trying to hide things, but I would have to assume it is corrupting data.