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Bruce S.

Bruce S.

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Most Favorable Review

Basic but good

KINGSTON Q500 2.5" 480GB SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD) SQ500S37/480G
KINGSTON Q500 2.5" 480GB SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD) SQ500S37/480G

Pros: twice as fast reading as hard drive low power light got it on sale

Cons: doesn't have a cache so less performance than SSD on average

Overall Review: Nothing bad to say about this. Was an easy install. If you have a performance machine I recommend that you get a SSD with cache and performance engineering. This is really just a HD replacement but a good one.

Most Critical Review

Just clicking noises

HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724040ALA640 (0F14688) 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Hard Drive Bare Drive
HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724040ALA640 (0F14688) 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Price Quiet in operation MTBF double that of non-enterprise drives

Cons: appeared in drive management but would not initialize contacted HGST and they said that the drive was many years old and therefore out of warrantee.

Overall Review: I have since purchased a replacement drive that turned out to be this exact model (I thought it was an Hitachi but it was an HGST). It initialized without issue and I'm loading it now. So I don't have an issue with the drive as a product. It was listed as New on newegg but based on its manufactured date it was far outside the 3yr manufacturers warrantee. While I should have installed it immediately I had to back up the drive it replaced and that put it outside newegg's 30 day return policy. My issue is with Technodeals USA and HGST warrantee policies. I cannot reccomend this drive as the support for it is clearly unadequate. I can only hope that the same model drive I replaced it with will continue to work correctly.

Flawless from start to finish

Skytech Chronos Gaming PC Desktop, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz (5.2 GHz Turbo), X670 Motherboard, NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7, 2TB SSD, 32GB DDR5 6000 RGB, 850W GOLD ATX 3.0, 360mm AIO , Wi-Fi, Win 11 Home
Skytech Chronos Gaming PC Desktop, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz (5.2 GHz Turbo), X670 Motherboard, NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7, 2TB SSD, 32GB DDR5 6000 RGB, 850W GOLD ATX 3.0, 360mm AIO , Wi-Fi, Win 11 Home

Pros: wasn't a scam and they didn't cancel my order as has happened to many easy access to interior The wifi antenna were included everything except windows 11 was set up. That was an easy prompts to follow easy warrantee registration including a monitor was brilliant. 2T drive compared to most prebuilt offers of 1T

Cons: No internal 3.5 inch HD bays. I need over 10G storage long term. It might have another m2 slot but I need more and cheaper. Not quiet but this is a 5080 card pretty keyboard but keys could have been more responsive not as much documentation as I would have preferred. I'm going to have to hunt that down from the manufacturers. win 11 initially not activated but after I submitted a ticket it showed activated a day later. My ticket was never acknowledged.

Overall Review: After researching skytech on reddit, I had enough confidence to buy. Price was very good compared to other deals. Well packaged. Fast Delivery, good communication during that process. Most people would be able to navigate the set up. Everything has been running great. Starfield is running fast and looks fantastic. Would buy again but I've only had it a few weeks.

Almost perfect

Intuit TurboTax Deluxe Federal & State 2023 PC/MAC Download
Intuit TurboTax Deluxe Federal & State 2023 PC/MAC Download

Pros: Step by step instructions except for one state deductions that were not clear. . Sending in an amended return is an easy process that they facilitate

Cons: I had to contact the state tax dept to get those answers. Wish I didn't have to pay a separate fee to electronically submit my state tax return. Didn't identify the same deduction last year so I have to send in an amended return.

Overall Review: unless you are an accountant I recommend this kind of software.

So far so good

TOSHIBA N300 Pro HDWG51CXZSTB 12TB 7200 RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
TOSHIBA N300 Pro HDWG51CXZSTB 12TB 7200 RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Pros: very easy to install has worked without issue has been quiet in operation

Cons: was a little difficult to get the power cable in but I managed

Overall Review: 12 g is a lot of storage but high def family movies can really eat it up. Was time for a major upgrade. The process of choosing was pretty difficult and I was expecting a slightly better price but I am satisfied that I got good value. Installation was typical and was without incident except that the power cable didn't want to slide in easily.

12/19/2023

works fine once I upgraded to win 10

MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3050 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card RTX 3050 Ventus 2X 8G OC
MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3050 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card RTX 3050 Ventus 2X 8G OC

Pros: works great. quiet best choice if you have a i7 40xxx

Cons: no driver for win 8.1. not mentioned in ad. forced to upgrade to win 10. only 1 hdmi port (2 display port though).

Overall Review: would recommend to owners of older cpus so it doesn't just move the bottleneck. good price

12/17/2022