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Martin H.

Martin H.

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Most Favorable Review

Simply Fast and Secure

PROMISE STEX8650 PCI Express SATA / SAS Controller Card
PROMISE STEX8650 PCI Express SATA / SAS Controller Card

Pros: I have setup my Asus P5K w Q6600 3.6GHz, 4GB 800MHz DDR2, with RAID5 after many RAID0 failures. Because I do video editing, speed of RAID5 is very important. I plugged 5x HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721075KLA330 (0A35154) 750GB to create one 1TB (system/boot) and second 2TB volume for data. Read speeds are 190MB/s and write 90MB/s with writetrough and 300MB/s with writeback cache settings.

Cons: Had to buy set of miniSAS to 4 SATA cables separately - about sixty bucks extra for both plus shipping.

Overall Review: Need to get some spare drives and backup battery to fully utilize the cache. Also I have my drives in Athena Power BP-SATA3051B to keep them cool. I will get the same setup in the future for my other workstations - it is flawless. Also the included software has built in email notification in case of drive failure. Synchronizing of the total 3TB RAID5 volumes took about 8 hours.

Most Critical Review

Norton is not worth buying

Symantec Norton Antivirus 2013 - 1 PC
Symantec Norton Antivirus 2013 - 1 PC

Pros: Norton used to be good... about two decades ago

Cons: As a IT Pro, I get many computers for malware cleanup everyday. At least half have Norton software as its sole protection and costumers think that they are being protected when paid for Norton - wrong. Sadly even free MSE does better job on Malware front.

Overall Review: Symantec has a great research staff and I wish their developers are on that level. If your development is driven by sales hungry marketing dept, your customers experience will suffer.

Woudn't run my servers without it

LSI LSI00264 MegaRAID LSIiBBU08 Battery Backup Unit for 9260/1 and 9280 Series--Avago Technologies
LSI LSI00264 MegaRAID LSIiBBU08 Battery Backup Unit for 9260/1 and 9280 Series--Avago Technologies

Pros: Cache boosts performance, this battery protects the cache.

Cons: Expensive for tiny, cellphone sized battery

Overall Review: Will buy another soon for my Lenovo servers

Works in Raid...

SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: This is an update on my initial review from about a year ago and response to Royce's review. Yes, this drive works in Raid. I have two sets of 7 drives connected in two different servers to High Point Rocket Raid 4320 - no issues whatsoever. The servers has been up for months at a time, with few restarts due to updates in between.

Cons: Initialy, I had few DOA drives. From 14 shipped I had 2 bad which were replaced immediately.

Overall Review: I preffer these due to cost againts W D Ent. drives. I wish Thailand fast recovery, as HDD Industry is important to their economy. I'll buy more "made in Thailand" products to help them get back up.

11/17/2011

Your average printer

EPSON Artisan 50 Up to 37 ppm Black Print Speed 5760 x 1440 dpi Color Print Quality USB InkJet Personal Color Printer
EPSON Artisan 50 Up to 37 ppm Black Print Speed 5760 x 1440 dpi Color Print Quality USB InkJet Personal Color Printer

Pros: I use it only to print DVD's and they look awesome comparing to my Primera duplicator.

Cons: The printer complain about nonsenses all the time. Refusing to print - have to reset it, just to print one DVD. Big pain to make it work.

Overall Review: I wish brother will print on DVD's. Will never have to deal with epson poor mechanics.

Low budget Home Theatre of the year

YAMAHA YHT-393BL 5.1 Channel Home Theater in a Box System
YAMAHA YHT-393BL 5.1 Channel Home Theater in a Box System

Pros: High quality speaker set and great quality sub for movies and music. Easy to use receiver with high quality DA. Good enough for poor mans 5.1 reference speaker setup. Blu-Ray HDMI audio.

Cons: The included sub produce noise during some high-volume situations (certain explosions in movies for example). I believe it is a design flaw, as I own two of these systems. Since it can be noticed only at very few occasions, I wouldnt take egg for it.

Overall Review: I highly recommend this as replacement for computer speakers. Although making the 5.1 sound work in w7 x64 trough SPDIF could be chalenging (I use AC3filter for media playback to do just that).

seller reviews
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SLOW SHIPPING

Newegg should drop this seller, or at least not promote trough Shell Shocker 3 days after order and still no shipping...

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