failure across the board..
919844
No good for bigger phone. I would limit this to maybe 4.8 inch phones. My 7inch phone falls out immediately under the slightest amount of pressure.. Dropped it twice and threw this clip in the trash along with its weak adhesive circles attached to cheap plastic.. Can I get a refund for a product in the trash? Or reimbursement for my brand new phone being damaged by your failure of a product? Didn't think so. Not a single good thing about this product. 0 Stars!
1602122
I have had my board for over year and it was running well until it flat out died. I conducted all the standard tests:
Symptoms - Continually reboot (every 3-4 secs)
Possible problems - Overheating of CPU, PSU, RAM failure
1. Removed all unnecessary components (HDD, SSDs, USBS)
2. Replaced PSU (add $200 for replacement - 1250W Seasonic)
3 Removed all RAM (left single Stick)
Determined board had Died! RMA'd the board (Cost me $40 in shipping).
When I received the returned board - Same outcome.. it would keep Power Cycling (3-4 secs) nothing displaying on the Q code
I then took the entire Systm into a local repair Shop ($40 dollars for that too). They concluded a defective board.
At this point I am already $280 invested in this problem.. so you can imagine my frustration.
After calling back to the ASus Support line to report my issue. I was told that they would remedy the situation.
The 2nd RMA board arrived and low and behold Same thing .. it looked like it was about to power on.. and nope.. same issue.
Within the hour I called ASus Back.. We walked through all the components attached to the board:
CPU - I7-5930K
RAM - Adata DDR4 2133
Video - Zotac 980 GTX
PSU - Seasonic 1250W (BRAND NEW).
They said they would send me a packing slip .. it has been two days now and no packing slip..
One final complaint is There was an article published last Monday were ASus recognizes a problem with their board ----- Here is the link if you don't believe me --> [...]  .
So it has been 3 mothers later and still no resolve. The choice is now yours - I would no recommend this product as if anything goes wrong.. you may not get it fixed... at least not in this life time.
1680255
External & Internal Seagate drives are and _continue to be_ the most failure prone drives I've had the misfortune of buying.

Here are the Seagate Drives I have used over the past several years:
Seagate 1.5TB FreeAgent ST315005FDA2E1 (External)
 - Both units failed within 6 months
Segate 3TB Backup Plus (External)
 - Both units drop out on a semi-regular basis.  Acceptable as I have written a script to work around it.
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 2TB Drives
 - Used this as internal HTPC and JBOD drives
 - Purchased 15 drives, 5 failed within 2 years - either reporting SMART errors or make clicking noises.

I purchased 4 of their new 4TB STDT4000100 drives locally at a higher price to beta test.  It was my intention to purchase 4-6 more from Amazon if they worked well.
- One was faulty out of the box. It's transfer rate never exceed 30MB/s. I changed cables, USB 3.0 controllers and computers.  No change.
- One dropped every few hours during my HDD testing (see below) and therefore were not reliable
- One worked fine
- One ran 5-8degC hotter than the other and was nosier.

ALL of the Seagate drives ran too hot - all SMART temps were reporting 45-55degC in a cool office environment during routine backup operations.  The external drive cases are poorly designed with no proper cooling channels/paths.  If set horizontally, there are no holes on top of the drive.  If place on their edge, one set of holes is 'sealed' - and it lacks standoffs.

With any HDD, I perform a series of tests to screen out any early failures, starting with a performance read/write test by Crystal Mark.  I wrote a script for the Crystal Disk Mark - Disk Mark to perform 5 each of the following: 100MB / 500MB/  1000MB / 4000MB.  After this is completed, I run a 2 pass security disk wipe.  Once all of these are completed and the drive has 'stretched its legs', I'll run Pass Mark's Disk Checkup  - within this tool is a 'Extended Disk Self Test". While these tests take a few days to run, the drives that make it through usually last two years or more.

To level the playing field: No other device can be operating on the same controller during this testing.  If a drive 'fails' or 'drops out', I will move it to a different computer with a different controller.  As a reference, I regularly use these same ports for my other drives/drive enclosures based on HGST NAS drives.

I am fanatical about HDD care and run 12TB RAID 60 and a 8TB RAID 10 servers in my home for media, DVR, surveillance, and work duties (I run two businesses out of my home).  I was hoping to use these external Seagate drives as weekly stationary offline backup.  (I have another set of drives that are rotated monthly offsite for critical/previous data in case of a catastrophic loss).

I now run Hitachi/HGST drives almost exclusively...I am hoping that WD doesn't screw them up since they were purchased by Western Digital.  I tried two of the WD 4TB Premium My Book (External unit that uses WD Red Drives).  Performance is OK, price point is high - but so far, so good.

Never Again will I purchase a Seagate Product...
953536
Bought 2, had 2 fail, and now a replacement has failed. ARGH! I am very disappointed in this product. Your results may vary
2438826
THis switch failed to work properly.  I replaced the sensors, the motherboard, and the inducer motor.  With the new pressure switch, it kept throwing errors.  I put the old one back on and it all worked as it should.  (I ordered everything so I'd be starting with a clean, and supposedly better, slate.)
4108553
Both have now failed and of course right outside of return window. Not reliable product.
3624566
I tried to make this board work but it was just a pain from the start. The first board I received was bad and promptly replaced. The second board that I received lasted for two weeks before it decided to stop. Even when it did work it had a lengthy boot process and was continuously trying to boot to an external USB drive (yes I know what CMOS is and know how to set boot priority). It also exhibited stability problems by shutting down at strange times. It finely crapped out. This time I had to RMA the board. I'm using an AMD FX8350 CPU, 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and an EVGA GeForce GTX960 FTW graphics card. When I read MSIs warranty fine print it indicated that I could wait up to a month and the best I could hope for was that they would fix my board or send me a refurbished board.  I'm not keen on getting a refurb when I paid for a new board.  Daunted, I decided to purchase a Gigabyte AM3+ AMD 990FX (GA-990FXA-UD3 R5, the UD means ultra durable...Worked perfect out of the box).
2317259
Failed on me. They're shipping me a new one. If the next one drops I'll definitely be done trusting it.
1184593
Failed to work upon first installation, except for some intermittent activity - seems to be due to a mechanical intermittent in the time/test switch. Unfortunately it's outside of my return window, so I'm out $34 and off to my nearest home improvement store for a replacement. Obviously very disappointed.
636490
Mine was the same experience as most others, failed immediately out of the box.  Unfortunately, I waited a while to install it, and it was beyond the return date for Amazon.  I also didn't read the reviews before purchasing, probably wouldn't have done so.  2 strikes against me...
2506144
This is my third Nikon Coolpix AW camera...all have failed similar to other postings.  Fog in lense, then lense failure, now no longer responsive to input keys on back.  It ruins holidays, even if you get your money back with purchase protection...time to move on to another product.
2950026
What a nice idea -- and I *do* like my JumpDrive USB memory. But the JumpDrive Sport I ordered had problems right out of the box. The volume/navigation toggle switch didn't work well (couldn't consistently adjust the volume) and within a couple minutes failed entirely. Back it goes for a refund...  Darn. For the few minutes that it worked the music sounded pretty good.
2679503
Yes its true: these sound great... until they blow up.

From my experience the (a) variation of the product is extremely unreliable. I bought two and have had two failures outside the warranty period. I am gladd that I didn't purchase 4 like I had orrigianly planned.

Analyzing the interior to identify a root cause of failure, I found sloppy assembly, poor solder quality, likely with tin whisker issues and bulging cheap capacitors.

I've given up repairing these... I don't think I can locate the (tripath?) surface mount chip anywhere.

I like PE and have had good luck with other Dayton branded products, but not this one.

In my humble opinion, PE should stop selling these. It does nothing to support the name and reputation of their business.
2510837
TOTAL FAILURE, AMAZON!!!  you guys cannot be slipping like this in terms of product failures...this is another one for me...this usb is a defective part that will not be recognized by my MacBook...thankfully I checked and detected the failure before my speech...but I won't be looking for the replacement part thru Amazon for this...going straight to Logitech!
735438
I purchased this to serve as a fail-safe if my indoor cats were to ever get outside. I had high hopes for this device on the reviews and research I had done on the older version of this device made by the same company. I had no experience with the old device that got rave reviews around the web, but this model is extremely unreliable.

I had a lot of issues with the battery getting bumped out of alignment just from normal wear. It led to things like the tag randomly chirping, suggesting that it had gotten detached from where it should sit, and then randomly popped back into alignment where it could actually supply power to the device. For the many times I tested the tags, they worked maybe 30% of the time, the majority of the time the battery was positioned where it wouldn't power the device (out of alignment).

I contacted the company regarding a replacement, they sent a replacement kit. The new tags I got had the same issue. At this point, it's apparent that my sub-par experience isn't a fluke, there is something inherently wrong with the design of this device. As such, I am back to looking at other options. I'll give TabCat a second star on a 1 star-worthy device for their customer service and willingness to provide a replacement. But if the replacement doesn't work, I still have a device that would probably fail me at a time I'd really need it - in the case of one of my pets getting lost outside.
2320730
This product, both units have now failed. I have others that are still active. I believe this is a good item, but with tech one has to be willing to take a chance. However, if I can find the info, I will send them back for warranty work.
2730169
Let me tell you this is a sweet board...if you can get the firmware to update. because if you don't the ipad app won't work.  I purchased mine with childlike excitement only to have my hopes smashed to the pavement like a downhill bike ride that got out of hand. I will give the rundown in great detail.
1. The firmware can only be updated via the usb port via a flash drive that has been formated in Fatman 32 format by a PC or Mac and then reformatted by the board. ug! yes think bout that for a second.
2. The boards are apparently finicky about which brand of flash drive works.  According to allen and heath you should only use this (http://amzn.com/B006W8U2WU), flash drive because they know that it works and many don't.
3. It takes 5-7 buisness days to get a refund once they receive the defective board back because you went through every usb stick made to try and get it to work and eventually determined that the usb slot was defective.

To summarize I like this board so much that I returned it and bought another. It's functionality is similar to the sound craft si performer 3 I use every-week at church for less then half the price. The pre amps are quality, and you may hear people say all day how great the x32 is but they don't work on real boards I promise you. This board sounds quite nice  Sadly to say I have a gig coming up that I need the board so I am out 5 grand until the seller receives my defective board and refunds the first purchase.