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Ben R.

Ben R.

Joined on 07/13/06

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Most Favorable Review

Does exactly what it's made for

Rosewill RCW-618 USB to IDE / SATA Adapter - Supports Windows 7
Rosewill RCW-618 USB to IDE / SATA Adapter - Supports Windows 7

Pros: Love it. Keeps me from having to open my case or shut down my machine when I want to diagnose ANY kind of hard drive.

Cons: For HDD's with bad sectors, or wierd formatting issues, it will still detect the usb device, but not show the drive. So really, just for pulling off info after fixing a drive.

Overall Review: Still love it. 'Can you get my music off before you wipe my hard drive?' no longer makes me cringe... :D

10/29/2008
Most Critical Review

So... SLOW!

Western Digital WD Green WD15EARX 1.5TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD15EARX 1.5TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: High capacity Quiet

Cons: This thing is incredibly slow for accessing data. I put a 5400rpm back in to speed my system back up... Yeah, it's that slow

Overall Review: Works fine if it's being used to hold pics or vids... Just don't install anything on it...

Lots of potential, but unreliable...

EVGA TEGRA NOTE 7 Tablet - 16GB Flash, 1GB RAM Quad Core NVIDIA Tegra 4
EVGA TEGRA NOTE 7 Tablet - 16GB Flash, 1GB RAM Quad Core NVIDIA Tegra 4

Pros: -Tegra 4 is FAST -Built in stylus is awesome (when it works) -Concept -Price

Cons: -Unreliable -Needs more RAM -Stylus does not always work! Draw a line in an app, and it started coming up dotted... -Neither does the screen for that matter... Started to be completely unresponsive at times, to stylus or touch -Started shutting itself off, becoming unresponsive, etc -I uninstalled everything but the base apps to make sure it wasn't something I put on it (after I wiped it), and it still had the same problems

Overall Review: Owning this thing for a few weeks felt like a beta test; I'm excited for what it will be someday, but it's not reliable enough now... I sent this back after 1.5 months and spent the extra money for a nexus... I like the CONCEPT of the Tegra Note more, but the nexus is much more reliable... Spend the extra cash on the nexus, or wait for Tegra Note 2.0. I'll be excited to see what it will (hopefully) look like...

Old school, but exactly what I needed...

EVGA GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR PCI Graphics Card 128-P1-N309-LX
EVGA GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR PCI Graphics Card 128-P1-N309-LX

Pros: Low price, great results. Obviously nothing cutting-edge about it, but it helped me breathe life into a donor pc for pretty dang cheap...

Cons: Again, nothing close to cutting edge, but if you have to have PCI, this was a killer deal...