Joined on 02/13/13
Good product
Pros: It's a great ups for desktop computers. More than sufficient for my workstations--I've made it my new standard. It comes from a reputable brand. The latest version uses a standard USB connector on the ups, unlike some of the older revisions of the BE550G. Includes QC check and battery info in box, showing you how old it actually is.
Cons: Sometimes the battery is about a year old before I get it, but I'm not sure how bad that actually is. (Many other manufacturers don't give you that info.) To download the drivers from APC's website, you need to have an apc.com account set up and logged in. More outlets would be great in some situations, or at least 2 more of the outlets spaced for transformer brick use.
Overall Review: I would recommend this product. The driver download from APC's site requiring a login is really annoying though.
One drive died in a couple of hours
Pros: They are officially supported by the ioSafe N2. They allegedly have TLER for RAID use.
Cons: Poor quality control. 1 out of 3 went bad within the first couple of hours. Not statistically significant in and of itself, but if you look at the other reviews, you can see that WD seems to have some quality control issues with these drives.
Overall Review: Meh. There's a reason they have only 3 eggs. Here's to hoping they last reasonably long in production use, but I'm a little skeptical that they're actually built much better than traditional desktop hard drives, as WD tries to claim. At least they are reasonably priced and designed for RAID use.
Works as expected
Pros: The metal housing gives the appearance of solid build quality. Reasonably priced small gigabit switch that does it's job.
Cons: I wish they made a managed version of this switch that had stp.
Overall Review: I try to use cable runs to a main switch whenever possible, but if I need a small switch somewhere, this and its 100mb relative are my go-to switches.
Solid product
Pros: It includes power for the hard drives (both SATA and IDE), uses USB 3, and doesn't give me false "bad block errors" on my 3TB hdd's like my old USB 2 Startech adapter did.
Cons: USB 3 is still slower on a 7500 rpm hdd than SATA is for doing a full disk scan. Considering that the theoretical throughput on usb 3 is several times faster than the sustainable throughput of a traditional hdd, I was hoping for better performance, but it's still pretty good.
Overall Review: The best external HDD adapter that I have at the moment. Every IT tech should have something like this.
Dangerous product--corrupted several hard drives.
Pros: It includes a power cable, and it is usb 3. Rosewill support at Newegg was good and refunded the purchase price of the adapter after the adapter had already cost me several hundred dollars in damages and time.
Cons: This adapter corrupted the filesystem on 4 hard drives before I figured out what was happening. This cost me a lot of time and money, as the drive corrupted a custom hdd image for an industrial machine that I had just paid hundreds of dollars for. When this thing went bad, hard drives connected to it would begin to show every classic sign of disk failure. Connecting the drives directly to a motherboard didn't make the problem disappear, as the filesystem had already been corrupted. This device caused me way more pain than it was worth.
Overall Review: No, I would not recommend it. This product is potentially a huge liability. I will never buy this again, or anything by Rosewill that is similar to it. It's just not worth the risk. I have lost all faith in it, and there are plenty of other options available here on Newegg. Rosewill support went out of their way to give me a refund outside of the normal return policy, so that was cool. Because of the good support, I may buy other products from Rosewill in the future, as long as they have no possibility of corrupting hdd's.
Shorter than specified,
Pros: It's a cable and it is retractable
Cons: Shorter than specified. Actual cable length is about 22.5 inches. Even including lengths of the plugs on both ends, it's less than 28" long, so the dishonest advertising is a major negative.
Overall Review: Quality is questionable. Because of the retracting design, the actual cable is very thin and flat. I don't believe it is built for daily use. For occasional use, it could reduce clutter in your glovebox by retracting into a compact design. I purchased it about 2 weeks ago for a service tech at my company. He returned it today, saying he "didn't know what happened to it." I didn't take an egg off for this, because it may have been abused, but even so, the cable looks somewhat cheap. I would not recommend for daily use-get a coiled cable instead.