Pros: Everything Just Worked <tm> with Ubuntu Intrepid. For a wonder in a low-priced board it actually supports the ECC capability that's been in (all?) 64-bit Athlons all along, but is too often only warranted by the manufacturer for overpriced "server" boards. Been burned by "accepts ECC or non-ECC" weasel words from... oh, right, can't mention who in a review here. For the adventurous, the flash with the BIOS is a cheap 8-pin serial ROM, and it's socketed for easy experiementation. Wonder if the LinuxBIOS guys know about this...

Cons: It's so *tiny*! xfree's recent drivers do support the HD3200, but only unaccelerated at this time. fglrx weems to work - it gave about a 10x boost in a simple 3D benchmark - and the acceleration support is in the pipeline now that AMD/ATI are cooperating with getting specs to the developers. Why would I ever consider buying graphics hardware from a vendor who refuses to release any specs, just binary blob drivers? It's really stupid that Asus's Express Gate requires Windows in order to run its installer - I'd love to see that, though admittedly it would be nothing more than a curiosity here.

Overall Review: I got the first one (have two of these) with a 4850E and 2G of ECC hoping for the best, with reservations about the amazingly low cost, but figuring that it could be Cally's upgrade if it fell a little short. Instead, it worked so sweetly that I scrapped my expectation, based on looking over what was on the market perhaps a year ago, of needing a "server" board for my desktop - this puppy does all I need. The 64-bit PCI 3ware RAID card has just enough clearance in the first slot (running in 32 bit mode, of course - that's the one thing a server board would have bought me, but it would have cost more than this, the 5600+ and 4G of ECC memory did - too much for too little). I'm not cheap, I'm frugal. :-)

Cons: Weird SMART report - Media and Data Integrity Errors: 30,780 But no errors logged, 100% Available spares, and no other sign of a problem.

Overall Review: I've been using this drive for a number of projects, and it's worked well so far (still under 1TB written). It has lived through a few panics, though not nearly as many as the 37 "unsafe shutdowns" its reports. So the weirdly large number of M&DI errors it reports is, well, weird, and a little worrying.

Pros: * Works - install SSD, plug into desktop, can access drive. * The separable adapter was the biggest reason that I selected this from among the mob of similar enclosures. Haven't tried that yet, and may not given my other reservations, but this feature is pretty sure to Just Work as expected.

Cons: * Case is held together by molded clips. Long odds that these will loosen or even break over time, just like every other similar cheap plastic thing with molded clips. * USB bridge is some no-name "sage" device with an unknown VEND:PROD ID. Perhaps because it's unrecognized, smartctl can't (or refuses) to pass smart commands.

Overall Review: Would not buy again.

Pros: Nice bright light, enough that I found a little dimming of value.

Cons: Stopped working about 8 months after purchase (and it wasn't used much most of that time). No longer turns on, just blinks and goes dark.

Overall Review: Would not buy again.

Pros: They were inexpensive, and seem to work well once you get them plugged in.

Cons: The mechanical construction is annoyingly flawed. The flimsy plastic shell around the actual connector tab is flimsy plastic (first time I've seen that), and between theat shell flexing and it not being as firmly attached to the tab as other flash drives I've used, and that makes it need wiggling and other fussiness beyond the usual "2 wrong ways" of USB every time to plug it in.

Overall Review: The flimsy plastic shell around the connector isn't worth the couple cents it saves.

Overall Review: I bought this in order to have it for the bringup of what was my first DDR5 based machine, and as a spare in case of disaster. Only used it for a week or so until the ECC memory (not from newegg, alas) arrived. Now it's the emergency spare DDR5 stick, and with any luck I'll never need it for that.