The phrase "a common disadvantage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a shared drawback or negative aspect that multiple people or groups experience.
Example: "One common disadvantage of remote work is the potential for feelings of isolation among employees."
Alternatives: "a frequent drawback" or "a shared downside".
Most fully-parallel manipulators encountered today have a common disadvantage, i.e., their low rotational capability.
A common disadvantage of reverse shoulder arthroplasty is limitation of the range of arm rotation.
For object detection, a common disadvantage is that they only consider images obtained from a stationary, or a dynamic, camera to train the detectors.
A common disadvantage of compost as fertilizer is weakening of the water intake ability of plants due to osmotic effect from high salt concentrations (Koivula et al. 2004).
Nonetheless, these models has a common disadvantage that is still expensive since they require various hardware systems of both power electronics and control boards.
Although the algorithms mentioned above are adaptive processing methods based on local neighborhood, they have a common disadvantage that the two processes, intensity adjustment and the contrast enhancement, are not parallel.
This becomes a serious disadvantage.
A main common disadvantage of the BNC tubes produced by using the three kinds of devices described above is that the BNC tubes show a multilayer structure because of an inherent feature (accumulation layer by layer during cultivation) in the BNC material obtained in static cultures.
Isn't that a disadvantage?
Most of the algorithms of watermarking schemes which are proposed have this common disadvantage that in the extracting process, they require a lot of information of host image and/or embedded watermark and this process is dependent on some information of host image or watermark.
The common disadvantage of both imaging techniques is the production of two-dimensional images only.
