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Christopher H.

Christopher H.

Joined on 04/17/01

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Product Reviews
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Most Critical Review

Failed after 18 months.

iStarUSA BPU-350SATA 3x5.25" to 5x3.5" SAS/SATA 6.0 Gb/s Hot-Swap Cage
iStarUSA BPU-350SATA 3x5.25" to 5x3.5" SAS/SATA 6.0 Gb/s Hot-Swap Cage

Pros: Reasonably good price, nice indicator lights

Cons: Drive bays don't fit snugly, seem to wiggle. Turning knobs to lock the drive handles feel cheap. After about 18 months, I began to suddenly get errors across three different drives in the five drive cage. When I ran the drives outside of the cage, no errors

Overall Review: I have four of their red handled metal ones, and they work fine. I think this is just a bad design.

2/5 DOA - 40% failure rate

Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Cheapest price per TB

Cons: Out of the box, two out of the five drives were DOA. I tested them on multiple systems, they weren't recognized by BIOS or the Seatools software. It's like Seagate isn't even trying to make their drives be worth purchasing anymore.

Overall Review: Pay a little more for Hitachi drives, you'd end up saving in the long term with all the RMA fees, lost time, rebuilds, etc

Doesn't work, don't buy

AVerMedia HomeFree AVplus F210 Watch Live TV on iPad
AVerMedia HomeFree AVplus F210 Watch Live TV on iPad

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Doesn't work - waste of cash

Overall Review: I bought it to watch video on ipad. The lack of support for HD channels is just being lazy on the manufacture's side - that's well within the technical capability of the ipad. But it didn't detect the non-HD channels either - so no channels at all detected Tried on Mac, all I get is 'Warning cannot find the device!'. It also looks like they've basically created one mostly beta version of software and never updated it for anything. I'm able to view over a dozen channels of both HD and SD from an antenna on my TV. This device doesn't work.

10/31/2013

Skip this!

Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) ECC Registered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Server Memory Model KVR1333D3D4R9SK2/16G
Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) ECC Registered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Server Memory Model KVR1333D3D4R9SK2/16G

Pros: Incorrectly listed

Cons: Newegg lists this as a memory option for the Supermicro X9SCM-F, but is not compatible. Save yourself their 15% restocking fee and skip it.

11/18/2011

not a good product

BUFFALO AirStation N150 Wireless Router - WCR-GN
BUFFALO AirStation N150 Wireless Router - WCR-GN

Pros: Cheap, runs dd-wrt.

Cons: Falls offline for 30 seconds at a time under load.

Overall Review: This unit seems pretty sweet, but falls offline when you send a large amount of throughput through it (rsync, time machine . backup, scp, etc). After screwing with it for two weeks, I replaced it.

Limited white balance

IMC CH-8118 USB 2.0 Da Pao Webcam - 8.0 MP (Software Enhanced)
IMC CH-8118 USB 2.0 Da Pao Webcam - 8.0 MP (Software Enhanced)

Pros: Cheap, small, recognized by native drivers on windows

Cons: Autobalance can't handle daylight level brilliance. Does ok in medium/low level, but picture is totally blown out at high level illumination