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Edward S.

Edward S.

Joined on 08/29/02

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Most Favorable Review

Great for the price

SYBA Black CL-CM-502 3.5mm Stereo Sound Plug 3.5mm Microphone Plug Connector Binaural Stereo Headphone with Built-in Microphone
SYBA Black CL-CM-502 3.5mm Stereo Sound Plug 3.5mm Microphone Plug Connector Binaural Stereo Headphone with Built-in Microphone

Pros: Cheap Price. Great quality cloth covered cord. Fit and finish is quite good for as cheap as this is. Volume and mute switch are easy to use.

Cons: Sound quality sucks. No base and the highs are muted. This is not a set you want to listen to music on or do anything but VOIP. Headphones don't flex and are too small to seal around your ears at all. They sit on your ears. The cups also don't flex left or right any, so if your ears stick out a lot (aka, Will Smith), this might be an issue. Or it might fix your ear problem. Microphone is not that good. The built in mic in my laptop does better. It sounds muted a bit, like some tape is over the mic.

Overall Review: Strange how better quality headphones have poor reviews and this cheap set has good reviews. Since my more expensive headset I use for VOIP died, I picked up this set. At under 10 bucks, this headphone beats out a lot of others costing way more. It works great for VOIP work. I would not use them for anything else tho.

Most Critical Review

1 of 2 DOA

SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Cheap price for the amount of storage.

Cons: One of the 2 drives I ordered was DOA. Would not even spin.

Overall Review: I RMA the DOA drive and shipped it back to Samsung. 2 weeks after they got it, they sent me a replacement. It arrived wrapped in bubble wrap, loosely stuffed in a flimsy retail box. Yes it was sliding around inside the box. It arrived in worse packaging then I sent the RMA one back in. I have RMAed a lot of WD, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM drives and none came back looking like it was packed by a 5 year old with a roll of tape and some left over bubble wrap.

SmartErrors

OCZ Onyx Series 2.5" 32GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1ONX32G
OCZ Onyx Series 2.5" 32GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1ONX32G

Pros: It's an SSD. The price is good for the size.

Cons: Mine came with firmware 1.6. It reports 7 smart errors and won't finish a self test. After some research, it appears that this can be fixed with a firmware update, but the book size Linux firewall this SSD is installed in, it already in production, so I don't want to pull the drive out, plug it into a win 7 box, install firmware, then put it back on.

Overall Review: Why did they ship a drive with easy to see smart errors due to a firmware bug?

Almost lasted 4 months.

SAMSUNG Spinpoint MP4 HM500JJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint MP4 HM500JJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: It's a 2.5 HDD. It works as such.

Cons: I ordered it on 4/28/11, it came a few days later, and I installed it. Now on 7/20/11 it's failing.

Update the Drivers

StarTech USB21000S Compact Black USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet NIC Network Adapter
StarTech USB21000S Compact Black USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet NIC Network Adapter

Pros: Cheap. Usb 2.0 Gigabit

Cons: Not quite plug and play

Overall Review: It does work with Linux 92.6.32), and the kernel will detect it, but it gives a bunch of errors and won't do anything next to showing a link. I was about ready to send it back, but I gave the drivers on the StarTech.com website a shot. Yes you have to have your kernel source handy to compile the drivers. But once I did and put the new drivers in, it's working great now.

Lever brakes on it's own.

AMS DS-2320SCBK-T1 Single Removable SATA Tray
AMS DS-2320SCBK-T1 Single Removable SATA Tray

Pros: Cheap

Cons: The levers brake off on their own.

Overall Review: I have 5 of these in a home server. After installing them, the server ran in a closet for well over a year. When I went to replace a failed drive, I noticed 4 of the levers had broken on their own and 2 fell to the floor. The other 2 fell off when I touched them. Nobody had touched this system since I installed it. The springs in the levers is quite strong and after a year of heat cycles, the plastic becomes weak. The spring then snaps the lever off near the pivot point. The trays still work, but there is nothing holding them in. Oh, and the 5th unbroken tray, flinged the lever across the room when I unlocked it.