Sentry Hardware Based PC Recovery PCI Card

Pros: Want to build a bullet-proof server? This is how it's done. Cheaper (both in price and construction) than the other card on this site, but a good tool none the less.

Cons: No manual, but you can find it and the drivers at http://www.computersentry.net/product_detail.asp?Product_ID=468

Other: Worth the cost and hunting for the manual and drivers

Pros: this is a very good product, and very easy to use, there is no vitual memory low problem (which sku 2896 will).
excellent price

Cons: only in chinese version.
sku 2896 supports config under windows, this one can only be config when you restart you computer(after booting and before enters windows)
it doesn't come with driver, you have to download from the website

Other: i purchased 3+ of this and if i need more, i will buy it again, i recommend to those who can read chinese and need recovery card for windows xp

Pros: Does the job when installed properly..
Very cheap for a solution based on hardware.
Great and simple solution for a big problem.

Cons: Dont work fine with dual-boot computers using grub.
Really hard to remove the software if you have problems.
In my first try, I got a blue screen. I had to install it in a fresh windows installation.
Software is in Chinese. You have to compare screens with a help in English. Its really boring.
Supplier doesnt have support. I sent an email and Im waiting for an answer until today.

Other: Be ready to make some fixes in the computer to get it working properly.

Pros: Does the job and does it well - I bought 5 of these as a test for computers I'm running in an internet cafe, and I'll be buying 5-10 more in the near future.
Feature not talked about or discussed in the description: Network hard drive copy! Woah! I thought norton ghost was a good tool, this thing makes imaging multiple computers a snap. Set the one with the image you like as server, set all the others as clients, and boom, in goes the image, all of them at once. No operating system required, good out of the box (only works on wired ethernet of course, wireless would be nice but i understand..) VERY useful!
Another good feature: BIOS protect - works like hard drive protect, but for your bios! No password required on the bios now, and it stores the BIOS info in the chip (tested it out by removing the bios battery).

Cons: Different cards seemed to act up differently depending on the PCI slot? I thought that I had a few defective ones, I'd put them all in slot 1 and a few made the computer stop booting, no menu, nothing.. changed them to PCI slot 2 and poof! works perfectly!
The Chinese thing.. I ended up opening a chinese translator (it's simplified chinese far as I can tell) and messing around till I could translate some of the messages on the screen that were not in the english manual. This includes the BIOS messages -- if your bios is protected and it changes, it pops up a message with something like reflash bios, accept changes, and go into system menu.. something like that (this is trial and error - anyone speak Chinese and can confirm??)

Other: I tell people about these cards and they don't believe it's true. This is not just changes made in windows - I booted from a CD and removed one of the computer's partitions; restart and it's all back. I think i'll install one in some of my less computer savvy client's computers to keep them running fast (just partition the hard drive and move all things 'changable' such as email folders and documents to the second partition) :)

Pros: works as advertised amazing functionality great price / value decent build quality

Cons: difficult to figure out how to use manuals need to be pulled from 3rd party probably is an unofficial / unsupported knock-off? but it works.

Other: if you might benefit from the features this provides, and don't mind spending a bit of time to learn how to make it work, it is an absurdly good value.