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Michael P.

Michael P.

Joined on 06/02/05

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Most Favorable Review

Lots of storage

HGST Travelstar H2IK10003272SN (0S03563) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" High Performance Mobile Hard Drive Retail Packaging
HGST Travelstar H2IK10003272SN (0S03563) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" High Performance Mobile Hard Drive Retail Packaging

Pros: Replaced the original 500GB drive that cam in my Lenovo W530 with this drive. Super fast (for a spindle drive) and lots of storage.

Cons: None

Overall Review: The original drive in my W530 was a 7mm drive, co the rubber rails would not work with this drive. seems ok without the rails but ordered the Lenovo FRU 41V9756 (9.5mm rubber rails) to be safe.

Most Critical Review

Very nice specs, bad product

Alienware AW17R3-7092SLV Gaming Laptop 6th Generation Intel Core i7 6700HQ (2.60 GHz) 16 GB Memory 1 TB HDD 256 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB GDDR5 17.3" 1920 x 1080 Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
Alienware AW17R3-7092SLV Gaming Laptop 6th Generation Intel Core i7 6700HQ (2.60 GHz) 16 GB Memory 1 TB HDD 256 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB GDDR5 17.3" 1920 x 1080 Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

Pros: Newegg got me the laptop after 2 days using the free shipping :)

Cons: The boot time is incredibly sloe for an NVMe SSD, I am averaging 3 minutes per boot. Some people have recommended upgrading the BIOS which I did to the latest A05 build but that did not resolve the issue. Additionally I tried disabling the free fall sensor but that didn't resolve the issue either. The bigger problem I have is that the system is intermittently recognizing the 1TB hdd in the Bios but never in Windows. THis appears to be a bad hard drive from the factory.

Overall Review: I will follow up with more information as I troubleshoot this further, but so far I have to say it is a big disappointment.

Great upgrade for W530

LG 6X BD-ROM 8X DVD-ROM 24X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-Ray Drive For Notebooks Model CT40N
LG 6X BD-ROM 8X DVD-ROM 24X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-Ray Drive For Notebooks Model CT40N

Pros: Installed this in my Lenovo W530 in only a few minutes and this drive works flawlessly. Playback is very smooth with quick load times using PowerDVD 13 Ultra.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Came as a bare drive wrapped in bubble wrap, but works perfectly.

Great Drive

SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 1x nm Samsung Toggle DDR 2.0 3-Bit MLC NAND Flash Memory (400Mbps) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 1x nm Samsung Toggle DDR 2.0 3-Bit MLC NAND Flash Memory (400Mbps) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: This drive is very fast and so far no issues whatsoever.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I just wish the prices of SSDs would fall faster so I could have gotten a bigger drive and stayed in budget.

Asus is just Awesome

ASUS M4A77TD AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A77TD AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: This is about my 7th ASUS motherboard that I have purchased, and they have all been awesome. I poutchased this with an AMD Phenom II X4 945, and 4GB of Corsair RAM. I would always recommend going with ASUS you will not be disappointed.

Cons: None

12/18/2010

Great Product

CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX4GX3M2A1600C9

Pros: works perfectly out of the box with the AMD Phenom II X4 945 cpu and the Asus M4A77TD motherboard I purchased. I would not buy anything other than Corsair Memory.

Cons: None

12/18/2010