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Christopher O.

Christopher O.

Joined on 04/05/08

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Most Favorable Review

Best upgrade ever

HyperX 3K 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive) SH103S3/120G
HyperX 3K 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive) SH103S3/120G

Pros: Absolutely amazing speeds. Loading and boot times are cut to drastically short times. I had a laptop that had twin 5400 rpm drives in raid 0 and this monsters that setup. Plus I scored a cyber monday deal and got this baby for 60$ through.....that other online store.....that has a big cat with stripes in the name......

Cons: none. 60$ for 120GB of quality SSD is excellent.

Overall Review: I put this in my toshiba qosmio as the primary hard drive. The stock qosmio HDD was a 640GB 7200 rpm drive that was giving me problems from the second I pulled it out of the box. Replacing it with this SSD has been the best decision I've made for an upgrade in a long time.

12/10/2012
Most Critical Review

Very poor quality

TOSHIBA MK6461GSYN 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
TOSHIBA MK6461GSYN 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: The capacity and speed are okay, but not for the price. Black friday/cyber monday sales had many 256 GB SSDs for not much more than this hard drive and they are MUCH faster AND more reliable.

Cons: Windows installations kept having issues, games chug and stutter, drivers act up, and overall sluggish performance on a laptop with a core i7 quad core and a GTX 560M card. The solution to all of this? I switch to a 60$ 120GB SSD and it all goes away. This laptop was a fresh refurbish from toshiba themselves. THe hard drive should've had very little use yet this hard drive failed spectacularly right out of the box with the stock windows installation throwing .dll errors when trying to install games. The stuttering though was what got me the most. The first time I would play a map in CoD or boot up mechwarrior online, or play a particular level of L4D2, the game would hiccup and stutter like crazy. If I went and played it again though? Somewhat fine with just the overall sluggishness felt elsewhere present. But after upgrading to 16GB of ram, I realized that the performance issues were the hard drive. Couple that reliability with an insanely high price, and this is a product that I can NOT recommend. I know toshiba desperately wants in on the HDD business but they can not produce a quality product yet.

Overall Review: My laptop is a Toshiba Qosmio X775-Q7270. I upgraded it from an i5 2410M to an i7 2760. I went from 6 to 16GB of DDR3 ram. It has a GTX 560M video card. It came with this hard drive but now I have a kingston 120GB hyperX SSD. The SSD has made me completely satisfied with my purchase. The toshiba hard drive made me want to get rid of it as fast as I could.

Great for RAID purposes

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Absolutely love these hard drives! I bought two not too long after they came out and I have been absolutely blown away by their performance. I have them set up in a raid 0 formation for the better read/write abilities to give me a laptop with a total of 1TB of HDD space. I put them in a gateway 7811-FX which is a pretty good mid range gaming laptop and immediately noticed that the spec sheet on my altop was reading like a decent mid range gaming desktop....only I was wireless! These things really didn;t drain the battery as i was afraid they would and they have yet to get a fault. I intend to get another one soon as well as an enclosure for it. I don't trust any other hard drive for my data now.

Cons: Not really a con but I paid a lot more than the 65$ they're going for today (6/28/10) but such is life. I guess the "slower" speed of 5400 might be viewed as a con but you really won't notice it, the platter density is quite high.

Overall Review: Again, great RAID hard drive due to their reliability and overall robustness. I got my laptop as a refurbished on the cheap and when teamed up with two of these the overall cos was still below 1 grand and it is still rocking everything I want to do with it. Best of all, when it does outlive its usefulness as a gaming machine it will make a great media pc due to the massive 1 TB of storage in a very portable form. I look forward to putting western digital porducts in my next computer.

Expect Greatness

Microsoft Gaming mouse system SideWinder X8 Black 12 Buttons Tilt Wheel 2.4GHz Wireless Gaming Mouse
Microsoft Gaming mouse system SideWinder X8 Black 12 Buttons Tilt Wheel 2.4GHz Wireless Gaming Mouse

Pros: I could go on about this mouse's pros for a long, long time but here are the highlights 1) Great feel to the mouse. Feels solid and well built 2) Adjustable DPI is quick to respond, great for changing from low DPI for sniping to high DPI for moving/hip firing 3) Side buttons are great once you get used to them. 4) The charging cable is incredibly well designed. The magnetic end works great and is easy to attatch/detach on the fly 5) Different feet for different surfaces 6) The size (I have big hands) 7) Macros! Oh so easy for macros! 8) Infinitely higher quality than any razer product. Mine is going on a year of use with no problems to report. 9) Good value - 4000 dpi, extra side buttons, great wireless receiver and charging mechanism, and easy macro and dpi adjustment buttons on the mouse all for 80$.

Cons: Not too many here 1) Intellipoint drivers....but you don't have to get too into them if you don't want to 2) Size (if you like a small mouse) 3) Wireless reciever is quite large and comical 4) If you buy this for anything besides gaming or CAD/Image editing, you are overpaying. 5) Heavy and large mouse + large receiver = hard to travel with.

Overall Review: Some people might cross shop this with the razer mamba, if you do may I offer a word of warning - Razer quality is some of the worst I've ever experienced. The only razer product I've seen with any decent quality is the microsoft/razer keyboard the reclusa. I had a diamondback that broke after 3 months, my best friend had a death adder that also lasted 3 months, another friend had a headset and his diamondback die after 4 months....You noticing a pattern here? Plus their RMA service is famous for taking your broken product and sending you back another damaged product....So before you plunk down 120$ for a mamba, I urge you to buy this instead, your wallet will thank you and in 3 months you will still have a mouse instead of a paperweight.

Absolutely fantastic

Motorola DROID Milestone Unlocked GSM Smart Phone w/ Android OS / 3.7" Touch Screen / QWERTY Keyboard / 5MP Camera (XT720)
Motorola DROID Milestone Unlocked GSM Smart Phone w/ Android OS / 3.7" Touch Screen / QWERTY Keyboard / 5MP Camera (XT720)

Pros: Let me make this clear - the droid is the best all around phone right now. If you want a very specific phone, and don't use all the features then you are likely overpaying. But if you want -GPS -Good internet browsing -Ability to do nes/snes/gba emulation -fast and simple sync with facebook, outlook, hotmail and the like -trying out new and strange apps just because then you will love the droid. It does all of that in addition to industry standard music/movies/phone/text/pic messaging. Oh and ignore the fanboys ranting about how important pinch to zoom is, because DROID CAN DO IT NOW! And it really isn't all that special. But motorola released android 2.1 for droids and so they can now pinch to zoom.

Cons: I don't always care for the keyboard. But then again, it has one. I just have large fingers and hands.

Overall Review: I was so set on spending my tax refund on a nokia n900....right until I heard about various nokia quality problems and realized that I would need a backdoor hack to do MMS (may have been fixed by nokia but I haven't bothered to verify). Even if that was fixed, I am currently running android 2.1 when it only came with 2.0. This upgrade came from motorola, you know what that means? They WILL support this product! You can not put a price on factory support. The nokia is obviously struggling with that if nokia can't get a decent MMS program working on their own.

Well rounded beast

Gateway 17.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Gateway 17.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Pros: This computer has done it all for me. It just powers through new games on high settings, left 4 dead running at max at native resolution for example, and it does not break the bank. I also use it at work. I am a researcher for my university and often have my laptop at my side, bringing up other papers or running tech support for the machines. The 3 hours of battery life comes in real handy in the lab. Oh, and it has support for two hard drives. RAID-0 with two 500GB WD scorpio blues has allowed me to store countless amounts of music, movie, and games without dragging along an external drive. Combine this with the excellent screen (mine is not the 1440 screen, I have the 1920) and as long as you have some speakers to plug into, it becomes a great multimedia platform as well. I am currently a college student so the ability to do all of this at an affordable price is a big deal to me. I work for 3 months then have 3 months of schooling so I move a lot so a desktop is impractical.

Cons: Biggest one by a mile are the awful speakers. I use this computer for my radio show so I don't use them for my music (headphone jack works fine) but when i just want to show someone a youtube video or watch a movie on the standard speakers it's appalling. Also, this is not a laptop for the feeble - it is big and heavy and takes up some serious space in a bag. It shouldn't be too big of an issue for most people looking for a gaming laptop but if you just want a multimedia laptop a 15" would be significantly lighter and smaller while possibly providing better sound. But for what I wanted it for, those are nitpicks especially considering the cost. And considering the tradeoffs you have to give to improve in gaming quality (my FX gets 3 hrs of battery life while my friend's sager 17" gets 2 on a good day and only has one hard drive) it is astounding value for your $

Overall Review: I have a slightly older model - the 7811-FX with a higher resolution screen, a slower processor, and a slightly different version of the 9800GTS but the computer is pretty much the same. My specs are - 1TB of HD space, 2x500GB in raid 0, a soundblaster X-Fi Express card sound card, 1920x1200 screen, p8400 processor, 512MB version of 9800GTS OC'd to score 9600 in 3dmark06, and the standard 4GB of DDR3 ram.