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Tex W.

Tex W.

Joined on 03/29/07

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Most Favorable Review

Solid

AFT PRO-55U USB 2.0 5.25" Bay, CompactFlash/ SDHC/ SDXC/ microSD/ microSDXC/ miniSD/ miniSDHC/ MultiMediaCard/ Memory Stick/ xD-Picture Card. All-in-one Internal Flash Memory Card Reader
AFT PRO-55U USB 2.0 5.25" Bay, CompactFlash/ SDHC/ SDXC/ microSD/ microSDXC/ miniSD/ miniSDHC/ MultiMediaCard/ Memory Stick/ xD-Picture Card. All-in-one Internal Flash Memory Card Reader

Pros: Simple install. No drivers. WORKS unlike so many these days. Fits my case (Antec 300 with no 3.5" adapter).

Cons: Limited hookups, would like some 1394's or eSata.

Overall Review: Can't complain, pay the price, you'll be happy. AFT also has a 3.5" version that I bought for a friend and he's VERY satisfied with it.

Most Critical Review

Not "All In One" solution

iolo System Mechanic Professional
iolo System Mechanic Professional

Pros: As far as keeping your computer clean, it does a nice job. If you've got Vista or 7 and have the side bar active, it has a nice little "red to green" meter to let you know to push a button. It is light on the OS and doesn't bog things down... sorta (see cons)

Cons: The anti virus is a little cumbersome. On my wife's laptop, I wound up switching to Microsoft Security Essentials. Iolo will start a scan right when you're in the middle of some task resulting in slow performance. Also (and this is the main reason I'm writing this review) the "Search and Recover" is a piece of junk. Search and recover is VERY PICKY (by their own admition) about what it will discover. The result of this is that when I plugged in a HDD for a client that needed recovery (previously formatted), it said that there were NO (0, zip, zilch) files to be recovered. NONE! When I used "Pareto", it found about 60,000 files and many of them were in perfect condition. Happy client. Also I've never had Drive medic help one bit.

Overall Review: I enjoy using Iolo Pro because it has good uses, but I think for the heavy duty "rubber meets the road" stuff that matters like saving your computer from a virus, or recovering data, or fixing your MBR or restoring a corrupted OS, you're better off shopping around and using multiple items.

Is this price correct???

DELL Laptop Inspiron 15 Intel Core i5-4210U 8GB Memory 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 4400 15.6" Touch Screen Windows 10 Home i5558-5718SLV
DELL Laptop Inspiron 15 Intel Core i5-4210U 8GB Memory 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 4400 15.6" Touch Screen Windows 10 Home i5558-5718SLV

Pros: Extremely well worth it. This is easily a $1000 computer. Monitor is SUPER BRIGHT and crisp. Runs super fast and smooth.

Cons: for the price none... Although I wonder why any computers ship with HDD's anymore as opposed to SSD's.

Overall Review: I upgraded mine to SSD. It's easy using "backup and recovery (windows 7)". and it is cheap, $60 for 240GB. All I need.

Works

StarTech.com SATDOCK2REU3 USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive Duplicator & Eraser Dock - Standalone 2.5/3.5in HDD & SSD Eraser and Cloner - Duplicator & Sanitizer
StarTech.com SATDOCK2REU3 USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive Duplicator & Eraser Dock - Standalone 2.5/3.5in HDD & SSD Eraser and Cloner - Duplicator & Sanitizer

Pros: Haven't tried the erase or copy feature. worked right away.

Cons: The devise copied 1TB from computer to drive on this devise and it took 3 hours... Started off at 120MB/s, after 2 minutes it dropped to 10MB/s. Could have been usb3 pci card, could have been drive... still disappointing.

Overall Review: Eh.

Works as needed

Rosewill RC-508 USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports, Speed Up to 5.0 Gbps
Rosewill RC-508 USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports, Speed Up to 5.0 Gbps

Pros: 4 extra USB 3. Easy physical install.

Cons: Eh, it took some time to get the drivers to install... The disc did not work right away and Rosewill does not provide drivers online.

Overall Review: I'm glad it works, but it is just lazy.

AWESOME AMAZING

Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT256MX100SSD1
Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT256MX100SSD1

Pros: SUPER FAST! This card took my laptop and turned it from clunk to hunk! (along with a RAM upgrade). Once the Windows 7 dots start flying across the black boot up screen, it flashes to the desktop faster than you've ever seen. Also get's a 7.9 on Windows experience scale.

Cons: SSD's of this era are still susceptible to power issues IF you disconnect power suddenly. ALWAYS shut down properly.

Overall Review: Newer SSD's are getting better with some features such as encryption and power resilience. But IMO, this is still a very good SSD with performance that matches higher cost discs. Also it's worth noting, I upgraded 2 computers to SSD's and 1 of them is a Core i platform and another is an older Pentium platform. The performance of your SSD will be GREATLY effected by the age of the technology that you're plugging it into. Rule of thumb. If your computer uses DDR2 or older, you will not really notice any/much performance increase. DDR3 or later is where you will notice significant performance increases due to new technology in your mother board (IE getting rid of the FSB and utilizing QPI). Bandwidths are wide open to handle this super speed transfer rate.