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Adam O.

Adam O.

Joined on 09/24/03

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Most Favorable Review

Great little machine

Dell PowerEdge T20 Mini-tower Server System Intel Pentium G3220, 4GB Memory
Dell PowerEdge T20 Mini-tower Server System Intel Pentium G3220, 4GB Memory

Pros: Quiet, low power, easy drive install, fast enough, Intel server north bridge, ECC memory. Intel on-board RAID. Server 2012 R2 installed fine. Intel on-board NIC.

Cons: Lacking full size optical bay.

Overall Review: I have the Pentium 3ghz version procured elsewhere. Using two Western Digital Red 3 TB drives in RAID 1. Idles at 20 watts and goes to 24 watts when writing data to the server.

Most Critical Review

Not good

OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G
OCZ Agility Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G

Pros: Came as specified. Speed was as expected.

Cons: Unreliable. Drive constantly corrupting Windows 7 install. Updated firmware and still no improvement.

Overall Review: I've had an Indilinx Vertex 60GB for a couple years that has been rock solid. Looked like the Agility has the same controller but has been flaky.

10/14/2011

Works

Dell Latitude E6530 i7 3720QM 2.6 GHZ 16 GB RAM 240 GB SSD HDD DVDRW 15.6" LCD Webcam Windows 10 Pro!
Dell Latitude E6530 i7 3720QM 2.6 GHZ 16 GB RAM 240 GB SSD HDD DVDRW 15.6" LCD Webcam Windows 10 Pro!

Pros: Was in really good condition. Everything as described.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Only had it in service about a week but the user likes it.

Great machines

Lenovo Thinkpad L420 Notebook - Intel Core i5-2520M 2.5Ghz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Solid State (SSD) Hard Drive, DVD RW, Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
Lenovo Thinkpad L420 Notebook - Intel Core i5-2520M 2.5Ghz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Solid State (SSD) Hard Drive, DVD RW, Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit

Pros: Clean machines. Speedy. Came as described.

Cons: None. Computers are heavier than expected but that's the model.

Overall Review: Well packaged and clean.

10/15/2015

Good buy

Aposonic A-BR1B4-C250 4 Ch 960H Full D1 DVR + 4x 700TVL Bullet Cameras + 500GB pre-installed HDD with Mobile Access Surveillance Kit
Aposonic A-BR1B4-C250 4 Ch 960H Full D1 DVR + 4x 700TVL Bullet Cameras + 500GB pre-installed HDD with Mobile Access Surveillance Kit

Pros: One of the more intuitive setups I've seen in an inexpensive DVR. The cameras are outdoor rated and come with all the hardware needed to mount and connect them.

Cons: Unable to make out faces or license plates at 20 ft.

Overall Review: Bought this for a customer recently and it's my second Aposonic device in 7-8 years. I've been impressed by how it just works.

Overclocked 3258

ASRock H97M Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock H97M Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Overclocked a Pentium 3258 to 4ghz @1.2 vcore in just a couple clicks. Running stock cooler. Worked with 4x 1GB DDR3 1333 out of an old Dell inspiron. An extra couple fan headers Im not used to on the cheaper boards so it was very nice.

Cons: No documentation on bios settings in the paper manual. Bundled junkware on the CD if you choose to install all drivers and utilities.