Joined on 07/05/04
Great monitor
Pros: Great monitor, it looks wonderful over HDMI. I got a deal on it while it was on sale as well.
Cons: As usual, the speakers are absolute cr*p(very common for LCD monitors). No worries for me though, because I have external...
Was good for 1-2 years
Pros: I own two of these, both purchased in late 2010. The PSU worked great and flawlessly for about 1.5 years on one machine, and 2 years on the other. They operate 24/7 in two FreeNAS boxes, each with 6 HDDs and a flash drive with a micro-ATX motherboard.
Cons: After 1-2 years, the fans started to make bad noises. Extremely noisy. A few weeks later, the clicking starts. It's certainly internal to the PSUs. I have RMAed both of these today, waiting to hear back now from CORSAIR.
Overall Review: The PSU's still work, but the clicking and fan issues are unbearable unless this thing is tucked away in a closet.
Worse mouse movement ever
Pros: It's small, that's about the only good thing I can say about it.
Cons: I got one in the mail, set it up without much hassle on my PC, and the keyboard seemed to work fine - but the mouse functionality was the worst in the world. No matter how I played with the settings, movement was sporadic and unusable. I thought it was a lemon so I got a replacement. Unfortunately, the replacement was just as bad. I even tried the thing on two computers. I'm not sure how logitech is using or testing these things, but it's miserable. Additionally, no back-light.
Own 12, 3 RMAed - around 2 yrs
Pros: 75% of them are still up and running, and I haven't hadn't operational issues until they begin to fail at least.
Cons: I've owned 12+ of these. 3 I have been replaced (RMA). Obviously 25% is a huge percentage for HDD failures, pretty unacceptable really. Granted, I run these nearly 24/7 in a small server, but I've never had such high percentages of failures. They work for a 6-18 months than die, unfortunately.
Overall Review: I don't have a huge problem replacing these whenever they fail. I'll live, I have my data in a RAIDZ array and use other means for the most important data - so it's not the end of the world when they fail and I need to rebuild. It's more just a pain. Anyhow, I wish I had about 20 hours of my life back from dealing with these. I won't skimp on HDDs next time!
Works like it should
Pros: It's about what I coudl expect. I got a great price over the holidays, and I'm happy with it. It usually finds the GPS signal pretty fast, too. Lifetime maps is nice =).
Cons: Even with the latest maps, it's not always the most correct, it thinks some roads still don't exist. Maybe next version...
Solid
Pros: Works as expected. It's certainly faster than my 7200 RPM drive, so it's exactly what I wanted.
Cons: The encryption is just ok. To be clear: it beings actually being "encrypted" once your SATA HDD password is set via BIOS. At this point, the encryption key is linked to that password - and bam, you're set. I say only "OK" because almost every bios will limit your SATA HDD password to 8 characters. 8 characters is NOT a very secure password. If you have a real need to encrypt your drive, you're likely using a password with over 20 characters. Point being, it's as I said - fine. Although, I await the moderately priced SSD that can actually allow for some proper encryption...
Overall Review: I'm still using this HDD encryption in lieu of TrueCrypt FDE.