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Eric J.

Eric J.

Joined on 01/30/06

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review
Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U External Hard Drive SATA Enclosure Docking Station 2.5" & 3.5" USB 2.0 & eSATA
Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U External Hard Drive SATA Enclosure Docking Station 2.5" & 3.5" USB 2.0 & eSATA

Pros: Great Product. Used it a least a 100 times backing up other people's entire harddrives. Haven't had a problem with it yet.

Cons: I get a little worried about the dust it gathers, specially inside the bay.

10/13/2012
Most Critical Review

Horrible Reliability.

Team Group 32GB C171 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (TC17132GB01)
Team Group 32GB C171 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (TC17132GB01)

Pros: -Cheap -Lots of Space

Cons: -RMA'd the first one, some sectors went bad causing data corruption within the first few hours of use. -Second one did the same thing within 12 hours.

Overall Review: Newegg's RMA system has been broken for a while as it does not generate return shipping labels automatically. I don't feel like waiting for customer support for an hour. So I will eat the loss. Lesson learned. Don't order flash memory online. The quality is (Newegg censored the third grade insult I was going to use that starts with C, so how about this...) extremely Chinese these days. As for my use case. I have a home FreeBSD file server running off a flash drive. Works great for many years with my 4gb Verbatim drive. However, I needed more space to upgrade. So I dd the data to this teamgroup USB, growfs, boot it, and it runs great. For a couple hours until it breaks... I have ran fsck in attempts to fix the drives, and chkflsh to verify busted sectors.

CENTON moVex Black 4GB MP3 Player 4GBMP3-001
CENTON moVex Black 4GB MP3 Player 4GBMP3-001

Pros: -Cheap. -Uses File Tree system. (All my music is in file trees with little or no id3 tags) -Simple Interface that is easy to use while driving

Cons: -Eats batteries -USB cap came lose, fixed by thicking the usb port with tape -Scrolling song title lags high bitrate mp3s, can't disable scrolling titles

Overall Review: Wish they'd make more mp3 players like this, but with rechargeable batteries and higher capacities.

10/13/2012
Gyration GYT8101 GYROTRANSPORT Air Mouse - 1GB
Gyration GYT8101 GYROTRANSPORT Air Mouse - 1GB

Pros: Great for making presentation, I can walk around the classroom.

Cons: It's a pain in the wrist to use. Rebate company didn't rebate me.

Overall Review: I think the unit should be a little bigger. My gorilla hands have a hard time flicking it around.

10/13/2012
Black & Decker CMD3400MB Black with stainless accents Programmable Coffeemaker
Black & Decker CMD3400MB Black with stainless accents Programmable Coffeemaker

Pros: Makes a pot of coffee with no fuss. Still working after 3 years.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: My father wanted a programmable coffeemaker for xmas. He got one. Programmed it once, and never has had to touch it again.

10/13/2012
Hitachi GST Deskstar T7K500 HDT725032VLA360 (0A33435) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Deskstar T7K500 HDT725032VLA360 (0A33435) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Still working great and fast.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I've had this unit for 4 years and am still using it in my daily computer which is my programming machine. It handles the data (HUGE PROJECT) with breeze.

10/13/2012