Beware and be cautious to prevent hardware failure
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The 64gb vita memory card is an awesome for memory storage however it has one fault. deleting content (an application or game) while downloading something from the ps store, will result in bricking/causing a hardware failure on your memory card rendering it useless and unreadable for your vita or playstation tv. luckily my memory card is under a 1 year limited manufacture warranty so sony agree to ship me a new one because of this.
650007
x79 Deluxe works fine when it works! After retailers replacement policy, usually 30 days. Wish, pray and hope the odds are in your favor. IF there is a motherboard problem past initial new motherboard replacement by retailer, you have troubles coming your way.
Read the warranty policy posted and rigidly adhered to by Asus personnel.  No new boards will be sent out as replacements! You will receive a used board that may or may not be working correctly. If the 2nd board does not work, you will send it back ( at your expense of time and shipping each time) and the 3rd board will arrive. The 3rd board may still have the same problems, just a different serial number. So guess what? Send it back and get your 4th board.
While the warranty period from Asus is 3 years, which is excellent. The warranty procedures and outcomes are unusual.

Good Luck! This board has wifi problems, fan power plug problems and posting problems. While all manufacturing runs have some defective units. The wifi problem seems to be pervasive. One board no post in first thirty days. Two replacement boards both with wifi not working. All boards different serial numbers. Maybe the fourth board will be the answer.
Study reviews from others and other sites. I am not the first 3 board customer and when I get the fourth board, I will not be the first 4th board customer either.

Do you feel lucky? Clearly some people are having better experiences.
3973099
The thing crashed after only having it two or three weeks.  I really need to trust my hardware devices and be able have them last for a long time.
412995
Though this product looked nice and worked just as I hoped straight from the box, it failed. I used the drive to keep a back up image of my computer and it was only switched on once every two weeks but after it had been used only 32 times (and I suppose that is about a month of normal usage)the drive failed to start. WD could not assist other than to help recover the data at a prohibitive cost.
1978906
Display driver seems to crash about once a week or so. Not a big deal, but always catches me off guard.
4118271
I purchased 3, of the first 2 - one failed in less than 2 months. At first the failure ran the fan at full speed and the knob had no effect. AT least this retained hardware protection however: within a day of initial failure - it failed completely and the fan stopped. This allowed the computer to overheat. Luckily the built in mother board thermal protection detected this and it shut itself down. I put the 'spare' one in but confidence in it's longevity is lost. I contacted the dealer and they did not warranty it. Not a good product to protect your hardware. I intend to discard them all when another solution is purchased.
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Excellent design ideas, but worst reliability in my 25+ years use of laptop and tablet PCs.

I had the t100 model with 64 GB SSD plus 500 GB HD. It worked very well for one week. The microSD slot supports SDXD format, and worked VERY well with Class 10 128-GB media. I really liked it. But the 500 GB hard drive failed when I took it on a trip. Very disappointed, to say the least. It is probably under warranty or within Amazon's return/refund policy. Unfortunately I already loaded the 500 gig with data, and need to recover the work I did and saved in the drive. (Experience suggests that I should have got one without the 500-gig drive and get a 128 GB microSD card.

Not sure what I will do, maybe I will just open the keyboard dock, swap the 500-gig with an SSD drive and try to recover the data in the failed drive.

This is the first BAD Asus tablet/laptop I have. Just put it in perspective, other Asus laptops I have (and still functioning) includes 2 desktop replacement notebooks, 1 Asus convertible tablet, 1 ultrabook. If it were not the failed HD, I will give this product a 5 stars!
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It started out great, no probs with connectivity. Then I updated the driver. After that if I left the PC on overnight, the next morning there would be a BSOD. Sometimes even after a couple of hours you would get one too, eventually I got tired of it and took the card out. I've swithced to using cable now, had it out for over 6 months now and I don't think I'm going to put it back.
3597485
Mine completely died, throwing up the message "MEMORY ERR". Google it and you'll find a number of others had the same problem.
4756924
This item didn't work and it caused severe problems to my computer
2416067
Attempted to connect larger monitor to laptop. Unsuccessful. One of the plugs 9 pins got bent and broke.
User fault. Recommend being careful when installing.
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It is full bugs that the dell support cannot solve. In 5 months of ownership I have spent hours on support, the Wi-Fi died, the machine gets stuck in sleep mode, the display randomly crashes, and the Hard Drive has been replaced. I am having a TERRIBLE experience and I DO NOT recommend this product.
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The device is small and convenient works with Windows and Linux but sadly it is unreliable and too easy to corrupt data. It is dangerous to try to install a second drive after a single has been installed. I lost one data set this way. While ftp is useful something like an rsync server would be a simple enhancement that could speed backups. Sadly notavailable. Configuration is I think okay but changing a configuration is dangerous. In one case I wanted to switch out one drive and use another. Removing the first working drive to make sure no accidental writes. The device refused to talk to the new disk and then also replaceing the first drive alone  the first data set was gonne. It would seem sensible that a disk might be read at some other source such as a computer but the disk configuration appears to be locked into Addonics. This makes secure backup of important data too dangerous a prospect to use with this device.
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Unit was working fine after I used it for a brand new computer build at the end of Feb 2017 (ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E; Intel i7-770K; Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080; Rosewill ATX Mid Tower, Seagate 4TB internal SATA; LG 16x internal SATA CD/DVD/BluRay etc.,).  As of early this morning, my PC started shutting down randomly and the interval between these self-shutdowns grew smaller and smaller to the point where the PC won't turn on anymore.  (Almost a verbatim repeat of the review by Romano P&eacute;rezon February 19, 2015 titled "stopped working after 2 months of normal use")

Makes me wonder what kind of pre-shipment quality control and burn-in they do to their parts ...

I reported the issue to Amazon and they will be sending me a replacement.  So thank you Amazon; Corsair, please take note.
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WARNING: This hub will overcurrent and FRY many USB flash drives. BEWARE!
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I've had mixed results with the machine.  Was well cared for, never dropped, but the hardware failed in significant ways after 4 1/2 years.  My XO laptop will last longer.

Acer's bundled software, which includes Vista and Acer's proprietary 'empowerment' software, is questionable.  I replaced it with Linux and was happy for 4 years, until the USB ports failed.  Not planning to buy any more Acer products. Having the tech support folks tell me I need to "update my windows USB drivers" isn't something I plan to put myself through.  Removing the battery got it booting again, after it failed to talk to the keyboard, but now USB isn't working.

I broke my own rule by purchasing hardware that came bundled with a new operating system release.
What kind of machine should I replace this with?

The machine would've been better with XP, since Vista fails on two counts:
1) imposes mandatory DRM restrictions on hardware
2) requires newer, 'beta'-quality drivers
  Many of these weren't even available by May 2007
  Vista shipped in January 2007

No other hardware else I purchased with the machine worked day 1.  Acer should have provided an XP 'downgrade' option.

I purchased the machine to get an AMD chipset that could be upgraded to 4G of RAM.  The hardware itself has held up reasonably well in 48 months of light-duty usage. The iBook that preceded this started losing key caps after 18 months.

I run Ubuntu Linux on this machine, which is OK in 2008, in 2007, there were Wifi headaches caused by the Broadcom chipset (familiar to Apple "airport extreme" users as the non-open source friendly chipset.  You use to have to extract the Broadcom firmware file while running another OS, then make that file available to Ubuntu Linux.
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It's sad when the reliability of your backup storage is lower than the system it's backing up. My first unit failed with slow performance as reported by others within about 6 months. Western Digital was very good about replacing the unit. A second unit bought in late 2012 just failed with the same very slow performance. It took a week to back up my computer. When I tried to update the firmware the unit locked. I took the unit apart figuring the disk drive would be fine and could be installed as an internal hard drive. It was and installed fine in my computer. However it had to be reformatted to work so all backup data was lost. Stay away from this product.