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Steven B.

Steven B.

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Most Favorable Review

2nd verse same as the first

Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2FW Raid 0 (Spanning) JBOD  Raid 0 (Stripping)  Raid 1 (Mirroring)  Raid 3 (Stripped set with dedicated parity)  Raid 5 (Striped set with distributed parity)  Raid 10 (Mirroring + Striping) 4 3.5" Drive Bays USB 3.0  eSA
Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2FW Raid 0 (Spanning) JBOD Raid 0 (Stripping) Raid 1 (Mirroring) Raid 3 (Stripped set with dedicated parity) Raid 5 (Striped set with distributed parity) Raid 10 (Mirroring + Striping) 4 3.5" Drive Bays USB 3.0 eSA

Pros: Bought one of these last year at $199 and vowed if it came on the shocker I'd buy another. This thing rocks! I stuck 4 3TB hitachis in the first one for 9TB of RAID5 awesomeness! These weren't screaming drives but I get a steady 180+ Mb/s off it and I love the fact that it's not relying on the operating system to keep the RAID intact. In fact, I moved it back and forth between two PCs for the first month as I populated the data.

Cons: The instructions are wrong on how to set up your RAID mode. It clearly says push the button on the back and hold it down until the RAID light flashes. This is blatantly wrong, hold in the mode button on the front until it changes then use it to select the raid mode, THEN press the button on the back until the unit powers down (which confirms the RAID mode). The instructions are rubbish but the enclosure is amazing! Feels heavy like it was well constructed (although the plastic door on the front is a little cheap), but it looks great.

Overall Review: The 2nd one I populated with 2 WD green drives (yes, I know they aren't meant for RAID and they wouldn't do it from my onboard RAID controller). The greens are working terrific (surprised me). I think the next thing I'll do (when HDD prices finally drop again) is get 4 more 3TBs and try a mirrored RAID 50 configuration (that should get me wicked speed and double my reliability). Even at $199 this is a great product but at $129 on the shocker... no brainer... I was truly shocked!

Most Critical Review

Free Trial? Really? omgwtfroflmao

ASUS Gift - World of Warcraft PC Game BLIZZARD - Trial Edition
ASUS Gift - World of Warcraft PC Game BLIZZARD - Trial Edition

Pros: It's round. It smells good. I makes pretty sparks in my microwave. I got to destroy a WOW disc without losing 49$ Did I mention it was round? (I really like round discs, I'm easy to please like that).

Cons: It's not a red ball. All the good smell went away after the sparks stopped. I could only nuke it in my microwave once (bummer) Man, even though it was pleasantly roundish, I would have preferred a red rubber ball.

Overall Review: Ok, wow let me put my brain back in and say... this was a really stupid bundle. I at first thought this might be a full version (just requiring a monthly subscription) which I had no desire to play, but hey, free is free right? Well, once I saw it was a non-retail OEM "Trial" version (meaning, if you like it, you buy it at a store and THEN pay us our monthly fee) it just kinda, well, blew me away. I thought maybe they send the disc incase you are living in the Gaza strip and don't have broadband, but NOPE, the 3GB update would kinda snuff that idea (try that update on a 56k dial up). Ok so what could this "free" "49$ value" round object they sent me possibly be for? I don't know. I don't care. It just seems environmentally unfriendly... Next time, Blizzard, just save the electricity and petrochemicals you spent on this CD and email me a link to your website. (I won't use that either, but at least it's free (oh, hey, you could put $49 value as the subject!!)).

Seemed really good, at first

AOC C3583FQ Black/Silver 35" Curved 2560x1080 160Hz LED Backlight Widescreen VA Gaming Monitor, 21:9 Aspect Ratio, 300cd/m2, VGA, DVI, DP, HDMI, Built-in Speaker, Tilt
AOC C3583FQ Black/Silver 35" Curved 2560x1080 160Hz LED Backlight Widescreen VA Gaming Monitor, 21:9 Aspect Ratio, 300cd/m2, VGA, DVI, DP, HDMI, Built-in Speaker, Tilt

Pros: The picture looks amazing and the monitor is huge! I came from an AOC 27" ultrawide model which I've used for over 2 years without any problems at all. This thing is WAY bigger. I was so happy when I got it and started trying it on games. I eliminated my 3 monitor setup because this was big enough by itself.

Cons: About 1 month after purchasing it, I bought a display port cable and tried the monitor at 160hz. That worked really well for a few days, then the monitor started losing its mind. The display would go black, the image would double vertically (squishing the image and repeating it below itself) for about 1/2 a second then come back like nothing happened. It would do this randomly, but seemed more so in games (although it also did it during idle screens or internet browsing). I tried reducing the refresh to 144hz, no difference, still problems. I removed the DP cable and went back to HDMI and the problem is still happening (at 60hz). I didn't have any problems until trying the 160hz but I suspect this was going to happen no matter what. I thought it was a great deal at 300$ but now that I've thrown the box away, I'm sure I'll have to RMA it (from the "A" website reviews it will probably be at my expense) and I have no idea how I'm going to ship this monster back without the original packing and box, safely.

Overall Review: I hope I've only got a lemon here and it's not a model problem, but another reviewer described EXACTLY the same issues I'm seeing so I'm very nervous now that even an RMA may do the same thing. It's a shame because I've really been happy with my previous AOC monitor.

Excellent memory - outrageous price

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-32GRK
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-32GRK

Pros: I bought this memory kit in July 2016 from newegg for $108 and it has been very good hardware.

Cons: Due to memory industry price increases this memory is 320% higher 1 year after my purchase.

Overall Review: Isn't it time someone address memory prices again? I was so happy with this memory kit when I purchased it last year and would love to upgrade another of my computers, but 300% price hike in 14 months? Not Newegg's fault at all, but I think some CEOs need to answer why the "supply problems" are still being used as an excuse for this a year later.

10/27/2017

Excellent condition item, well packaged and working order. 750 hrs on lamp! Super excited!

Epson PowerLite 83VT H371A Projector Ranged Lamp Hours
Epson PowerLite 83VT H371A Projector Ranged Lamp Hours

Pros: Quick shipping with a bubble shell package surrounded by peanuts. Survived UPS shipping from East Coast. Bulb is bright and only has 750 hours on it! For 50$ that's awesome. I'm slowly setting all my family's houses with home theaters with these little jewels.

Cons: Knew this when I bought it but it is an analog input projector. The inputs are limited to vga, svideo and component. Will take an active hdmi to vga adapter to take a digital signal. Not a big deal, knew it when I ordered it.

Love

OEM Production 2550L2D-MxPC Intel NM10 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System
OEM Production 2550L2D-MxPC Intel NM10 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System

Pros: Low power, amazing size and quiet enough for me.

Cons: a little noisy stock fan (mine is in a closet so don't care) a little tricky to get USB CD rom hooked up for installation, but not really bad (a little picky on ports)

Overall Review: been running smoothwall 3.0 on it and performance is awesome. It uses 15w all the time so my UPS can hold up my entire network for about 2 hours with this thing running. I'm thinking about buying a 2nd just so if this one dies I can replace it with the same thing. Get it... totally worth it.

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Item was in good shape, as described

Dell 1800MP arrived in good shape with decent packaging. Item listed New-Other but really should be "refurbished" (which for the price, I knew was refurbished), so no real surprise. My only complaint is that the bulb counter was reset on the projector, so we have no idea how many actual hours were used. I really don't think they put a new >100$ bulb in an item selling for $55 so I have to assume the bulb has at least 1000+ hours. It would have been nice to have left that intact so the bulb meant to run 3000hrs doesn't accidentally run 4000+ hours and burn out inside the projector. If they actually put a new bulb in, they would probably have said so in the listing. Anyways, other than that, this seller was fast, cheap, adequate packaging, and best of all, the projector has worked for several hours of operation. Very happy... even if it only lasts a year or two. Thanks Splus! I do recommend this seller.

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