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Richard C.

Richard C.

Joined on 01/16/04

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Most Favorable Review

Nicely made

ROSEWILL RL-W95001, A19 Non-Dimmable LED Light Bulb, E26 Base, 8.2 W, 60 W Replace, 800 Lumens UL CE RoHS, 5000 K, Cool White, Wide Beam Angle 230 Degres
ROSEWILL RL-W95001, A19 Non-Dimmable LED Light Bulb, E26 Base, 8.2 W, 60 W Replace, 800 Lumens UL CE RoHS, 5000 K, Cool White, Wide Beam Angle 230 Degres

Pros: I like the 5k color spectrum and is what I wanted anyway. It's a good thing it has this nice beefy ceramic heatsink which fwiw it does get hot after being on a while; anything thinner would of been too hot and surly the electronics in the bulb would be eventually compromised. I like the heatsink on this, I wish my brand TCP 60 watt LED's had this same heatsink because they need it since with the cheap heatsink they use it still gets way too hot! and so I choose Rosewill over TCP for this very reason!

Cons: Out of 7 bulbs 2 are 1 second delay turn on, but the rest are instant on. This is fine if you use all the same timings on the same switch meaning they will all come on at the same time, otherwise I'll put the 1 second delay together, or alone, and no big deal.

Overall Review: Going forward, Rosewill should get Engineering and Production together and get these LED's to all be created with the same turn-on timing. I still give this bulb a 5 star though, well made, nice quality, and again an appropriate beefy heatsink for it's 60 watt supply

Most Critical Review

Received a 4 MB cache version

ASUS Black 12X Blu-ray Burner SATA BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS
ASUS Black 12X Blu-ray Burner SATA BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS

Pros: Did not get what I expected or ordered, what NewEgg shipped me was a model 'BW-12B1ST a' and is labeled just like that 'on the drive itself' even though the 'box' says 'BW-12B1ST' (without the 'a') ..also the box for this one has now left off listing on the box itself what size cache it is, whereas the one I bought 8 months does list it and 8 MB and the lable on the drive has no 'a' either. There Is A Difference! with the 'a' version which has only a 4 MB cache! You can see what size cache by using various softwares, I used AID64 to check. This webpage Product Specification as of today and for the last few months clearly says this has an 8 MB Cache. However having said all that, the 'BW-12B1ST a' being a re-branded LG BH14NS40 Black 4MB Cache Blu-Ray Burner is a good drive within itself, but that's not what I ordered, I wanted the 8 MB Cache as it's listed, and this is only 4 MB. I gave it a 3 star because of the situation, not because the 'a' version is a bad one.

Cons: There are two versions of the Asus BW-12B1ST: 1. There is a re-branded Liteon iBHS112-2 with an 8 MB cache, and the other version is a re-branded LG BH14NS40 with 4 MB cache. 2. The Liteon version has the capability of doing Quality Scans for DVD and Blu-ray discs and the LG version does not. The webpage for this product advertises that it's the 8 MB cache version which is the LiteOn clone. What they actually shipped was the LG clone with only 4 MB cache and incapable of performing Disc Quality scanning as the Liteon clone can, along with a few other minor features too.

Overall Review: NewEgg did right by it though, and I RMA'd the unit immediately and received my refund. Thank You New Egg. I had explained the problem specifically, hoping they would at least fix the webpage listing. However a week later I see my review is posted, but the webpage still lists this unit as a 8 MB cache (as of today anyway) I have no idea how many of the 'a' versions they had/have in stock, or even if any of the original version is available anymore. Please fix your website description and weed out your stock to match to version you have. I think it's ASUS fault for mixing two different re-branded versions under the same model number in the box, and depending on what shipment NewEgg receives depends what you get. Am*z*n has had the same problem previously so it's not just NewEgg who has had this same issue with this ASUS drive.

12/18/2013

We like these

ROSEWILL RL-O56001, A19 Non-Dimmable LED Light Bulb, E26 Base, 5 W, 40 W Replace, 500 Lumen, UL FCC, 5000 K, Cool White, Omni-Directional
ROSEWILL RL-O56001, A19 Non-Dimmable LED Light Bulb, E26 Base, 5 W, 40 W Replace, 500 Lumen, UL FCC, 5000 K, Cool White, Omni-Directional

Pros: Last month I bought 12 of these ROSEWILL "Cool White" 40 watt LED's ...anyway after coming back a month later to write a review I see this new review from the last poster saying that the LED fluctuates or something. I don't see any of that happening at all. ' We use the 40 watt Cool White' bulbs and we like it for over bathroom mirror which that fixture holds 3 of these; perfect cool white color for the bathroom. Also in an enclosed ceiling kitchen fixture which the "Cool While" is perfect for that too; otherwise we use warm white for the living room, etc If I notice any of the mentioned fluctuation though I will come back and speak of it for sure; but we just haven't seen that happen.

Cons: All good

Overall Review: Anyway excellent deal for these that day I bought 12 of these ROSEWILL "Cool White" 40 watt LED's on Sale! for $3.99 ea + 6.47 SH which equals .53 ea for shipping ..sure I would of liked free shipping :) Great LED Bulb for a great sale price.

Better than I expected actually

Seagate Backup Plus 5TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup - STDT5000100 (Black)
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup - STDT5000100 (Black)

Pros: It's better than I expected actually because I didn't think it would transfer this fast via USB3.0 Copying a 8 GB single file from an internal Seagate 2 TB HD via USB 3 over to this Seagate 5TB drive, and watching the regular Windows 7 transfer rate gui box as it copied, stated off @ 200 but by the end of the copy leveled off at 135 MB/s ...and only took 50 seconds flat - now that is Excellent ! Yes as others have asked, this 5 TB is only a 5900 RPM, but as others knowledgeable have also commented it really doesn't equate to that much in reality for backup purposes. For instance the above test was copying from a 2TB 7200 RPM drive to this 5 TB 5900 RPM and as stated it copied an 8 GB file @ minimum of 135 MB/s in just 50 seconds Copying the same file in reverse back to where it came from (iow, onto a 7200 RPM) was @ a minimum of 160 MB/s in just 45 seconds. As far as doing benchmarks I don't care so much since it's real-time data transfer rates as I've done above is what matters and is what I go by. fyi Looking at this drives specification via HD Tune Pro shows it's: Firmware: CC46 RPM: 5900 SATA 3 Supports UDMA Mode 6 etc... Mu use of this drive is only when needed I don't plan on installing any of the software it gives, my only purpose is to use this occasionally, plugging it in only when needed, to copy backup large partition image files too, or anything else I want, but then unplug it and store it somewhere else. Running everything with a modern i7 setup. My OS used was just Windows 7 installed on a 128 GB SSD, also running a Seagate 2 TB (ST2000DM001) as an internal backup along with it. All has run flawless for over a year now.

Cons: None that I can think of, for my specific usage. I bought this 5 TB on sale for only $139 My 2 TB on sale was only $59

Overall Review: Instead of buying a 10 TB when it comes out at high $ value, I'm going to buy more 5 TB units on sale, since having the off-chance safety using multiple units is better than all on one. I was going to take this out of the case an install it as an internal, but I don't see the need to now, since my internal 2 TB via SATA 3 doesn't write backups any faster than this 5 TB via USB 3.0, and so there's no gain with my stated intent of usage, which is only to plug this unit in for occasional backup and then store it elsewhere for safety. For running OS's, well it's a no-brainer - nothing is faster than using an SSD

Nice

Collection LED CL-G60E-6W (W) 40 W Equivalent LED Light Bulb
Collection LED CL-G60E-6W (W) 40 W Equivalent LED Light Bulb

Pros: ~ Great price on sale. ~ Good warm color for the living room ~ 6 watts consumption giving 40 watts of light ~ Looks good

Cons: I didn't expect it, but at the base of the bulb it actually gets hot to the touch, it won't burn you, but it's hot and you won't touch it for too long. I just didn't think LED's get hot like this but perhaps it's normal. The bottom half of the bulb surface is painted/covered in a silver coating of some type which I presume acts as a heatsink of sorts which is fine. Again I just didn't think LED's would get hot to the touch.

Overall Review: Sale @ 4 dollars ea. incl SH though, I'm very happy with the 5 i bought.

Very Happy

Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I bought 2 of these HD's last week and use them for separate computers, and they work perfectly, no head clicks like earlier 2012 and 2011 versions, and these are extra quiet in everyday operations.

Cons: none for me

Overall Review: Over the years I've have bought a few dozen of these, all of them have been made in Thailand fwiw. This was the first time I received ones that were made in China...and so I didn't no what to expect good or bad. I'm happy to say I actually like these better. They are very quiet, I can barley hear it's normal operation, last years and the years before model you could hear its normal operation although no head clicks from engagements; but early 2012 and 2011 and earlier models did have the head engagement click every aprox 5 to 10 mins and even though those drives are still in operation and working today, it's just annoying that they do that. Anyway, the 2 new HD's today from China are running perfectly in every way. They are all used in Standard setups, meaning no RAID, etc, just one HD per computer.