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Mason F.

Mason F.

Joined on 09/13/05

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Most Favorable Review

Not meant for enterprise workloads

Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Much faster than any other regular SATA drive

Cons: Can't keep up with SSD and SAS

Overall Review: These are not enterprise drives. as waynem mentioned, they're seeing problems when used in an enterprise market. The issue is because of the limited electronics on these drives..timeouts occur, and depending on your controller card, it might take them as being bad. I'll wager if you pull the drive, wait for it to spin down, then re-insert it, the controller card will see it as "good"

11/29/2011
Most Critical Review

Eh

OCZ StealthXstream II OCZ500SXS2 500 W ATX12V v2.2/ EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
OCZ StealthXstream II OCZ500SXS2 500 W ATX12V v2.2/ EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: Looks nice, big fan, higher wattage

Cons: No 8-pin connector for CPU power, no 6 pin connector for video card, short 24pin cord.

Overall Review: I wouldn't buy again

Eh

ASUS F2A85-V FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS F2A85-V FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Works well with latest APU's, looks like it's built well

Cons: PXE booting is very hard as there is no support for the legacy PXE boot, only UEFI, which makes it hard to use with Windows deployment services

Overall Review: I wouldn't buy it again...Do yourself a favor and spring for the "pro" version instead