Joined on 11/11/07
Why the bad reviews?
Pros: Windows 10 does not supply software to play blu ray/dvd discs. THIS IS NOT A FAULT OF THIS DRIVE! It's listed as OEM - which means , if you can read, it is just the bare drive - doesn't come with software. There are plenty of free options out there. PROS: this thing reads reads/rips much faster than my older LG drive, it's about 30MB per second. Works well. No rip guard or anything.
Cons: none
Overall Review: It bugs me when people do not read the obvious and give products a poor rating because they do not know what they are doing.
No good
Pros: They go on sale for $10 for a 2 pack.
Cons: They are very white. They say soft-white. But it's really white. The delay! I couldn't get used to it. When u flick the wall switch there is a 2 second delay before they light up. The delay is long enough for you to turn around thinking you hit the wrong switch. Or you are already halfway into the room before the lights come on.
Overall Review: Buy led lights that advertise "instant on". I mixed two of these with the one i am writing a review about in my bathroom. Now the two go on right away and then these kick in. Not so bad.
Ordered 2. 1 was DOA
Pros: One worked
Cons: The other did not. It made a short buzzing sound every 3 seconds. Tried in 2 different Windows pc. Would not recognize the disk.
hard drive failure
Pros: Pretty inexpensive for a 5TB drive
Cons: I bought 3 of these and 2 of the 4TB D3's. I had one of the 5TB D3's fail on me. It was used by a mac. The user reported that it stopped working. I took out the drive and hooked it up to a Windows machine with a sata/usb connector. Could not get Windows Disk management/ Disk Part cmd to initialize the disk at all. Disk Manager said there was an error. Tried another pc, and then sent it to our University IT dept and they could not get it working either.
Overall Review: Due to the sensitive info that was placed on the drive, the user did not want to return it, so the disk was destroyed and we "took one for the team". We purchased a WD mybook 6TB for Mac as a replacement.
Install OS from thumb drive
Pros: Small, inexpensive. Works great with 4GB ram and cheap Mushkin 60GB ssd.
Cons: Could not get it to work with usb cd-rom drive installing windows 7 from disc. Spent 3 hours trying to figure out. I'm really not a fan of American Megatrends BIOS'.
Overall Review: Put your windows install onto a bootable usb to install it. It's not going to knock your socks off, but for a casual browsing pc in your living room, you can't beat the $ and the size.
GREAT!
Pros: Great look! Really looks sleek and professional under your Dell monitor. Mine had 2 headphone jacks on the side. Uses the power jack under your monitor so no power cables to your outlet***
Cons: Sound quality is what you would expect. Nothing fancy, average sound. The white light in the center is a tad bright and distracting. Black electrical tape would fix this.
Overall Review: ***need to make sure your Dell monitor supports sound bars. Just google your monitor and take a look at pictures of the back. If it has those 2 clips in the back and the power port, then you are fine. ***It also comes with an AC power adapter. If your monitor doesnt have the power jack underneath then the included AC power jack allows you to plug it into the wall! Also, you really could use this with any monitor and just leave it sitting on the desk.