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Corey A.

Corey A.

Joined on 07/12/03

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Most Favorable Review

Great Product

WD Blue 250GB Internal SSD Solid State Drive - SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch - WDS250G1B0A
WD Blue 250GB Internal SSD Solid State Drive - SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch - WDS250G1B0A

Pros: - Drive is fast - Free Acronis does good job migrating old to new drive - I'm IT service provider and install a LOT of these drives for customers - they love them! - Price is really good - TBW is 400, yielding a 27 year life expectancy, meaning $3.33 cost per year. Not bad.

Cons: None comes to mind

Overall Review: Many people are complaining about the Acronis software. The free version is limited and suites most people's needs. Need more options, then pay for the real version. Also, as I said, I install a LOT of these as well as Samsung 850 Pros. I see Acronis fail about 20% of the time with either brand because of issues with the original hard drive. Then I use Drive Copy Pro from Paragon. It takes a lot longer to run because it's fixing problems, but does the job. So, don't be so fast to condemn Western Digital. Their drives are spot on!

10/21/2017
Most Critical Review

Problems for me

Cisco Small Business 200 Series SLM2024T-NA Smart Gigabit Switch SG200-26
Cisco Small Business 200 Series SLM2024T-NA Smart Gigabit Switch SG200-26

Pros: It runs well as a plain gigabit switch.

Cons: My switch has been very problematic. Tried to set up a VLAN with no success. Rebooting will cause system to lose all settings, including password, and restore to factory default. Associate got VLAN working once, but upon reboot of system it went back to factory settings.

Overall Review: I'm sure this is a good switch, but I must have gotten a lemon. Time to RMA. If the new one works fine, I may give a few eggs back to the rating.

Great product. Easy to set up and use.

Wavlink USB 3.0 Universal Laptop Docking Station Dual Monitors DisplayLink Dock with HDMI/DVI/VGA, Gigabit Ethernet, 6 USB Ports, Audio for M1 M2 Mac and Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04
Wavlink USB 3.0 Universal Laptop Docking Station Dual Monitors DisplayLink Dock with HDMI/DVI/VGA, Gigabit Ethernet, 6 USB Ports, Audio for M1 M2 Mac and Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04

Pros: - Low price compared to Dell equivalent - Plug and Play - Works great. Works fast, presumably because it has a video processor on board.

Cons: No cons.

Overall Review: I'm a computer tech and purchased this for a customer. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The customer is happy, the price is GREAT, and that makes me very happy, too.

12/11/2020

Decent flash drive

Samsung 32GB BAR Blue (Plastic) USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 130MB/s (MUF-32BC/AM)
Samsung 32GB BAR Blue (Plastic) USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 130MB/s (MUF-32BC/AM)

Pros: CrystalDiskMark Benchmark Sequential Read : 133.492 MB/s Sequential Write : 40.051 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 100.525 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 19.186 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.631 MB/s [ 1130.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.376 MB/s [ 91.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 5.189 MB/s [ 1266.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.463 MB/s [ 113.1 IOPS]

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It would have been nice to see a faster write speed, but for the price of the drive this is acceptable. When I wrote a 3.6G file to the drive, the speed was about 23MB/s. So there are real world results.

Great Bulb

Foreverlamp A55 6W Omnidirectional A19 LED Light Bulb, Warm White
Foreverlamp A55 6W Omnidirectional A19 LED Light Bulb, Warm White

Pros: High light output, low price, warm light, 270 degree beam pattern

Cons: None

Overall Review: Some other bulbs have 120-180 degree beam spread. These have 270 degree beam spread. Some advertise warm light at 2700K, but are actually whiter. These really do look 2700K warm, like the incandescent bulbs they replace. Because the light is output in a 270 degree pattern instead of the normal 360 degrees that a normal incandescent bulb provides, they are brighter in the 270 degree area they are lighting. So, you will probably find them brighter than normal 40 watt bulbs. In fact, I'm replacing many 60 watt incandescent bulbs with these 40 watt equivalents because 60 watt equivalent LED bulbs are way too bright. If these are to replace bulbs in directional desk lamps (like the animated Pixar lamp jumping around in the beginning of Pixar Movies), these will be wasteful. Buy some that have a 120 degree beam pattern so they focus all the light forward for these lamps. These are great bulbs for fixtures that aim the bulbs UP. Because the beam spread is 270 degrees, they aim 45 degrees downward (45 degrees on two sides equals 90 degrees downward plus the 180 aiming upward reflecting off the ceiling totals 270 degrees). These are also great bulbs for fixtures that aim the light downward, but have a glass bell around them. The light that aims upward still gives the warm glow through the glass bell and gives great ambiance that is lost with other bulbs that have a 120 or lessened with a 180 degree beam spread.

Overall Good Systems

HP Desktop PC DC7900 DC7900 3.00GHz 2GB 160GB HDD Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
HP Desktop PC DC7900 DC7900 3.00GHz 2GB 160GB HDD Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

Pros: Inexpensive, clean, high end Core 2 Duo CPU (3GHz)

Cons: DVD did not open. This must be common as another reviewer had same problem and I bought some other refurbished HP towers from same company having 3 bad DVDs that also would not open. Going to RMA. One case had very hard time getting cover back on. But for the price, I can accept this.

Overall Review: DVD drives are cheap, so if they don't work either RMA or get another with no complaints at these good prices. Also suggest adding more memory. Supposed to come with only 2G, but some had 3G (3 sticks of memory). Three sticks make the system operate at single channel for memory instead of dual channel, which slows it down. Must install 2 or 4 sticks for dual channel operation. Came with 32 bit Windows 7 Pro installed, but both 32 and 64 bit DVDs included. You can install the 64 bit version instead and activate BEFORE you run and activate the 32 bit version that comes with it.