Joined on 06/27/06
Tech Review
Pros: It's a WD, Price/On Sale, Made it past 30 Days, Never Had Issues with WD
Cons: Price/Not on Sale - It's been a year since the floods and they are back to full production
Overall Review: I have a WD RE4 500Gb Raid0 setup for fast storage and was going to use this as a secondary backup to the Raid setup and I was really surprised by the performance of this Blue 1Tb drive. CDM 3 benchmarks below - 20% Used Disk Space SEQ R/W 176.6/174.0 MB/s 512K R/W 59.29/103.7 MB/s 4k R/W .67/1.95 MB/s 4K QD32 R/W 2.20/1.91 MB/s
Died within 2 months - Seagate wont warranty
Pros: Holds paperwork on my desk
Cons: Drive died without warning after two months of light use, light use as in pc was only turned on a few times a week. Seagate will not warranty as they state it was an OEM drive and I need to go through manufacture of PC. I think I will just AVOID Seagate's garbage drives and shady warranty practices because at the end of the day Seagate still made the drive regardless of how it ended up in my hands.
Overall Review: I have been running a small IT / Surveillance / Security business for approximately six years and 80% of all failed drives have been Seagate and the rest have been Samsung and Toshiba taking most of the other 20% and maybe a handful of Western Digital. My recommendation would be go with WD and this is from experience in the repair business.
Great First Impression
Pros: - Seemed to be a good monitor for the price - Better than a regular Desktop 1440p monitor
Cons: - In 4 days I already have one stuck pixel - Now that I have noticed the stuck pixel my eyes are drawn to it all the time
Overall Review: - Good Value / Poor Longevity - Hopefully I can get it replaced
Game Is Graphically BROKEN!!!
Pros: It is playable if your willing to sacrifice.
Cons: You have to turn almost everything off to play at anything above 1080p.
Overall Review: Do some research on low FPS for this game. I paid four dollars for this game and I feel ripped off. My current setup is 1151 i7 with high end SLI setup and I am only able to get 3-5FPS at 2560x1440p with all options to ultra. I am getting around 75FPS on BF5 @1440p with everything ultra.
My GoTo Router
Pros: Setup - Price - Speed
Cons: None as of yet
Overall Review: Android Issue - I had a connection issue and changed security to WPA(TKIP) on a separate SSID and this resolved all problems. WPA2(AES) and WPA2 Mixed modes seem to have an issue but for the price this is an excellent router, I did not buy it to use my cellular phone on. If you don't have at least an associates degree in IT and can do programming you are NOT tech level 5!!
Tech Review
Pros: It's A WD - Price/On Sale - Never had any issues with any of my WD drives
Cons: Price/Not on Sale
Overall Review: I read some reviews stating this drive was LOUD - I have two in a RAID0 setup and never hear them even under heavy read/write. I am very pleased with the performance and reliability as I have had these for just about a year in a RAID0 setup, but I don't leave my rig running 24/7. Benchmarks in RAID0 setup using Z68X-UD3H-B3 marvell onboard raid controller. 22% Used Disk Space CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Sequential Read : 280.293 MB/s Sequential Write : 255.470 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 43.670 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 108.037 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.476 MB/s [ 116.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 3.406 MB/s [ 831.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 2.426 MB/s [ 592.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 3.497 MB/s [ 853.6 IOPS]
Not Shipped - No refund
Waited for 3 weeks on package to update tracking, still shows USPS awaiting package. Contacted seller and was supposed to be issued a refund, 10 days and no refund. Avoid!!!!
Eggsellent Marketplace Seller
Item arrived in a normal time frame. Wasn't any different than ordering from Newegg.
Excellent Seller
Order was fulfilled just as if I had purchased from Newegg.