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ROMAN B.

ROMAN B.

Joined on 11/06/09

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Most Favorable Review

Works well, and boot concurrency problem is repairable

HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL PCI-Express 2.0 x8 Low Profile SATA / SAS Controller Card
HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL PCI-Express 2.0 x8 Low Profile SATA / SAS Controller Card

Pros: Price. Web interface. It does what it has to do conforming to its chip specs.

Cons: 

Overall Review: Some people says they have problems with boot when other bootable raid are present. Just detach drives from this card, you'll be able to boot. Next, download BIOS and disable boot option "INT13" taking bios file (using htpflash software you get in the downloaded bios zip) and finally upload that modified bios to the card. Mine works perfectly this way within SUPERMICRO MBD booting from its Adaptec's on-board raid.

10/12/2013
Most Critical Review

Only one memory slot for two Channels CPU ??

Giada N70E-DR Intel Celeron 1037U Intel HM77 Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo
Giada N70E-DR Intel Celeron 1037U Intel HM77 Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo

Pros: Seems have all you need for a low powered class unit

Cons: 1 memory slot when CPU has 2 memory channels A bit expensive for a soldered CPU solution

11/21/2013

Nice Little server

AMD Athlon 5350 - Athlon Kabini Quad-Core 2.05 GHz Socket AM1 25W AMD Radeon R3 Desktop Processor - AD5350JAHMBOX
AMD Athlon 5350 - Athlon Kabini Quad-Core 2.05 GHz Socket AM1 25W AMD Radeon R3 Desktop Processor - AD5350JAHMBOX

Pros: Low PWR, 4 Core, ECC Memory & Virtualization support, running cool

Cons: Stock fan heatsink installation not evident

Overall Review: Asus AM1M-A MicroATX Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) ECC Unbuffered CT2KIT102472BD160B Windows mirrored SSD

11/12/2014

Good but PSU seems poorly designed

ARK ITX/CS-Ci02 Black Server Case open frame 90W
ARK ITX/CS-Ci02 Black Server Case open frame 90W

Pros: - small, holding 2 HDD - relatively quiet - price - two fans

Cons: PSU is really hot and fans must be up and running for it, so if bundled with fanless c2750d4i of 20W TDP I can't take off two chassis fans even if CPU doesn't need them.

Pay attention, this is NOT Saeco brand

Saeco Espresso Colour Red
Saeco Espresso Colour Red

Pros: Do not know

Cons: As mentioned in title, this is not really Saeco brand machine. My bad, I didn't see product's pictures in a high resolution. But also, newegg also should not write wrong info... So RMA for now.

Great Board

ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Works as expected.

Cons: Mobo and packaging were so dirty seem not to be "refurbished" but manipulated and used before