Joined on 01/07/09
Wish I never wasted money on an inkjet

Pros: Great price. When you figure in all the money I have wasted on inkjet cartridges that require regular cleaning that empties them in just a few cycles this printer is a bargain. I have had to throw away several inkjet printers because the heads clogged up. Very impressed with speed and print quality. Couldn't believe I got free shipping on an item that weighed 23 pounds!
Cons: Some problems installing driver on Windows 8.1. Windows could not find it and the one on the install disk just hung up. I went to the web site and they had a download specifically for Windows 8. Problem solved.
Overall Review: I often only need a printer 2 or 3 times a month. I have paid for a lot of ink that I have never actually used. I should have bought a laser printer long ago. An image printed on just plain paper with this printer almost looks photo quality.
Took 8 to get 5 good ones

Pros: If you get a good one out of the box it will probably last until 4TB drives are cheap enough that you will want to replace it. Seems to have a pretty decent speed.
Cons: First I bought 5 and 2 were bad. One would spin up for a few seconds and shut down. The other one started to work but before I could format it Windows blue screened. When I rebooted it the bios did not see it. I tried it in my hot swap bay and I blue screened again. Of the 2 replacements 1 was bad. Shut down after a few seconds just like one of the first ones.
Overall Review: I bought another 5 of this model several months ago and all 5 were good. One showed a few reallocated sectors a couple of weeks ago. I retired it to lower priority backups. It has not showed any more bad sectors since so there probably is no real risk of failure. My experience with hard drives is if they are not DOA and make it through a couple HDSentinel surface tests they will last for years. I would not buy a hard drive from anywhere but NewEgg because of their good RMA policy. In a Google search about DOA hard drives most results said it was about 10%. That is about what I have experienced. I have seen some feedback blaming NewEgg shipping but I have never seen any product from them that did not have more than enough protection. Maybe the manufacturers are not as careful.
Works Great

Pros: Always had a problem with a bad ground loop. Had the cable people out here & nothing they tried helped. The hum was so bad that I ordered an isolater for the RCA plugs going into my amp. Turns out I didn't need it. Completely eliminated the hum.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Required field. Already said all I need to. It works.
Time to get some more.

Pros: Unbelievably fast boot up. Bought several of these before. Got a lot of hours on them. Rating has dropped to 99% on some based solely on years of use. Have read that for some time, SSDs will usually outlast predicted life many times over. Probably any name brand would be fine but my experience is with Crucial so I'm sticking with them.
Cons: The first batch I bought had one defective one. The good thing about hard drives any more is if they have a problem just a few days filling them over & over is all they take to show a problem. Newegg replaced it with no hassle. Since then one of them gave a few ATA errors but that's usually a result of a loose SATA cable.
Overall Review: If you bought SSD's when they first came out & had bad luck, forget about it. I bought a couple years ago that went read only on me & I was reluctant to give them a try until I read up on them more recently. With an ordinary drive the time from password to the CPU dropping off from pegging out was about 2 & a half minutes. Until then it was pointless to try to start a program. With this drive The CPU is taking a lot less load & drops to near 0 in about 20 seconds. UPDATE: I run my Linux machine 24/7 with 4 of these in it that I only use for cloning my system from my NVME drive, so they only get occasional use. The 500 GB is supposed to be capable of 180 TB lifetime writes. The S.M.A.R.T value #202 Percentage Of The Rated Lifetime Used seems to be affected by power on time & not entirely on number of writes or remaining blocks. The health value on all of them has dropped way down, even though I am nowhere near 180 TB. One shows 47% of lifetime remaining with only 31 TB written. The diagnostics show plenty of unused reserve blocks remaining. It also shows no pending sectors or reallocations. Until I run low on unused blocks or get any bad sectors, I'm going to ignore the 202 lifetime used value until I get a lot more TB written. I just don't think it is an accurate indication of the health of the drive.
Don't like the change of the switch
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Pros: Owned a lot of these for years & only ever had one fail. Can connect to multiple USB strips & run several simultaneously.
Cons: My complaint about the recent ones I bought as spares is the switch. The older versions had a switch on top that I always left on. I have shelf I built for 12 of these & use power strips with individual outlet switches for the adapters mounted on the back of the shelf. The new switch is a momentary switch on the back of the unit. I don't want to have to pull the dock out of the narrow shelf pulling on the cords every time I want to turn it on. I solved the problem by super glueing the switch down. Had this not worked, I guess I could have taken it apart & bypassed the switch. I have read feedback complaining about the older switch failing, but that didn't matter to me because I always left it on. I also don't like change in the shape of the adapter. It sticks out over the switches on the power strip. I just used the same adapter from the one I replaced.
Overall Review: If you are using these in the open I guess the switch is no problem. I just don't know why they had to make this it a momentary instead of a plain on/off. Even if you are using these in the open, I recommend putting a fan on top of it, especially for large copying jobs. The drives can get quite warm if you don't. I have two 6 inch fans on the back of the rack I built. In a narrow space like that they will get very hot with no ventilation.
Keyboard OK, mouse is junk

Pros: My 3rd try at a compact keyboard. Made the mistake of buying several of the others & all ended up in the trash after a short time each. Quality on this one seems as good as any of the full sized board I ever had. Keys don't stick or are just glued on so you can't fix them when they fall off. The range is very good. Can use on remote screens upstairs. I have dropped it nothing broke so far. Unlike a number I have had, it has a caps lock light. I'm not much of a touch typist & hate it when I look up at the screen & find it's been on for the last couple sentences. Also, you don't have to hold down a function key to make the F-keys work like normal instead of constantly unintentionally muting my audio, switching to my home page bringing up my mail, etc. Price is very reasonable so I got 2. Despite the cons below I may get a couple extra before the tariffs hit.
Cons: The mouse is very sluggish & when you do try to hold it over something it seems to drift around. Changing mouse response in Linux or Windows does not help. My KVM has 4 USB slots so I just use a good mouse. Tossed this one in a drawer instead of the trash because it's better than nothing if I misplace the good one until I find it. I don't care for the placement of the arrow keys. Been using this for weeks & still keep hitting the wrong ones. For programs that I use them a lot I just get out my full size board rather than keep backtracking.
Overall Review: Quality except for the mouse is fine.
I became concerned after I placed my order to read some negative reviews. My only complaint was that the tracking they sent to me did not work. I don't know what carrier they used but the shaver heads showed up in my mail a week after I ordered them. They were the correct parts, just what I ordered.
My mouse was shipped directly from China. It arrived 16 days after I ordered it. This is about average time for this kind of shipping. Also, like other orders I have had shipped this way the packaging was inadequate. The box was crushed but fortunately the mouse was not damaged and so far is working fine.
After I placed my order I read a lot of negative ratings about this seller but my experience with them was good. I thought my adapters were going to be shipped from China but they came USPS from California. I have bought a couple of things that shipped from China and it takes about 3 weeks. From the tracking info it appears that they actually open the packages for inspection before they leave the country. They also have to clear customs here. Maybe some of the people who were complaining weren't aware of the red tape international orders have to go through.