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Philip C.

Philip C.

Joined on 12/06/09

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Most Favorable Review

Good NAS

Synology DS209 Diskless System Disk Station 2-bay SATA NAS Server for Workgroups and Offices
Synology DS209 Diskless System Disk Station 2-bay SATA NAS Server for Workgroups and Offices

Pros: Easy installation. Put 2 seagate barracuda 1 tb drive inside and waited half an hour for raid 1 initialization and the transfer speed seemed pretty fast. Everything else seemed pretty straight forward. So far so good.

Cons: Data replicator that comes with the software cd needs more work. It can't map the ftp folder.

12/24/2009
Most Critical Review

It's a So So Product

D-Link DSM-380 Boxee Box HD Media Player
D-Link DSM-380 Boxee Box HD Media Player

Pros: Easy to use. Can hook up to an outdoor antenna, although need to purchase an additional adapter. Picture quality is good. User interface is OK too.

Cons: Crashed a few times already. Need to reboot in order to use it again. You would lose your login info on Netflix. Also there is no captioning on the over the air tv. Application launch is kinda slow. Remote should be a little bigger.

Overall Review: I was going to buy an Roku because it's cheaper, but it can't hook up to the outdoor antenna so I bought the Boxee instead.

11/26/2012

Buyer Beware!

ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Looks nice.

Cons: Had the mobo for 7 months now. One day it stopped booting up. I swapped the corsair ram for crucial ram and it worked. I returned the corsair ram which is still under warranty for exchange. So at this point I think the corsair was defective. But guess what, the mobo stopped working again so I swapped the crucial ram for the NEW corsair ram which I got from the exchange. This mobo booted up at the first try, but died again after that. So in conclusion, this mobo tends to blow out rams for some strange reason. I also bought a Asus M4A78LT-M AM3 around the same time when I bought this mobo and it never gives me any problem. Hopefully I can ask Asus to give me a different mobo in exchange for this one. This mobo is a headache.

Crashed after 1 Year !

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Don't know any.

Cons: Bought 2 of ST31000528AS for my NAS. One of them failed today which is year after purchase. I think they should last longer than a year no? So glad I bought a NAS. This is a unreliable drive. Going to try 1 TB Western Digital.