Joined on 12/13/01
Replacement Printer is Perfect
Pros: Took 2 weeks to process the RMA, but NE was very helpful. New printer works as it should, looking forward to owning a color laser printer.
Cons: keep in mind the printer is 50 pounds - if anything goes wrong, you have to lug it to UPS. I took mine to an Office Depot, who were nice enough to print a receipt - if you take it to the UPS store and the printer vanishes, who makes you whole? NOBODY
Overall Review: HP tech support was not very helpful or pleasant - I mentioned that in an HP survey and they extended my warranty. All's well that ends well!
rebate claim "invalid"
Pros: SSD worked as advertised, no issues
Cons: Sent in rebate form + UPC + receipt and checked the Kingston site - "We received an invalid barcode/UPC" This after I stapled the UPC to the rebate!
Overall Review: as always shop lowest price without regard to a rebate
was pretty happy
Pros: fast quiet
Cons: All was good for two weeks until HD dropped offline while PC was not even accessing it. Its back up now, running and passing full WD diags, no SMART errors. Not sure what to blame the drive or the SATA on the MB. If this was a glitch it will be the very first I have seen on a SATA drive directly connected (no cable, HD connects directly to MB).
Overall Review: This is a backup drive so it will be no issue to replace it and the data. I guess if nothing ever fails we really learn nothing. Lesson for those who never back their data up - no backup = data I don't care about.
AWESOME
Pros: -tiny -desktop i7 -quiet when fan set to 30% -not cheap but not expensive either -beautiful industrial design - gloss black/flat black -easiest PC to work on ever -about all the ports you would need, 4 USB3 (or more if you get a USB hub)
Cons: -an odd glitch: would not boot without a USB DVD drive. It does not give the BIOS beep, force it off then it will boot. BIOS is updated. So I leave the DVD connected.
Overall Review: 16 GB RAM 2x8G|HYPERX HX316LS9IBK2/16 R 256 GB mSATA M6M PX-256M6M 1TB WD backup disk WD10JPVX The I/O subsystem is faster than any PC I have seen. Talking about compressing large files, backing up, etc. Runs cool with 4 VMs up and not much activity. Something I found out: running YouTube in a VM on an i3 has performance issues, but not on this thing. I think there will be many more of these moments. If you don't need a game PC this is perfect. Just replaced my Alienware X51 with it and the Zotac is much faster. The X51 did not have Turbo Boost or SATA 3. I see there is an nVIDIA version too, that may work better for games. Actually this does play older titles well. Disabled hyper threading as someone suggested - running only VMs.
WD 4TB replacing three Seagate 4TB
Pros: Seagate started making (more than usual) head noises, time to replace it. I thought I should spread my brand/time risk* and try WD, Seagate stopped selling the plain black book style and WD was cheaper. WOW the WD head is much quieter (motor about the same) and drive is cooler - replacing all 3 Seagates now. *I bought all three Seagates at once, so statistically there is a higher chance of -another- Seagate drive failure. Mixing in other brands of different ages minimizes this effect.
Cons: 1 year warranty, but if you back up that should not be a huge con.
Overall Review: visually the WD I like better too
excellent deal
Pros: fast drive power management quiet when sleeping excellent fit/finish cheap USB3 = O-M-G speed
Cons: vibrates a bit but that's 4 platters running at 7200 RPM warm but that's (see above) Seagate tools requires one heck of an install, failed in my XP 32 VM, worked on my WIN7 64 VM. All I wanted was the utility to put the darned thing asleep after x minutes.
Overall Review: I would have preferred a quieter cooler drive but at this cost I'll live with the cons and faster performance. Actually I originally wanted bare drives for a NAS but this was substantially cheaper so I built my own (see the $129 OEM PC). Don't need/want all of the hyped backup/apps, just wish the drive utility was a simple .exe with no install. I have used consumer RAID (8 drives, RAID5) and single drives (50 or so as JBOD) - JBOD is superior but you must have a backup (true of RAID5 too!). In 8 years I have not had a single drive fail, maybe because I upgrade every two years to bigger drives. I did lose my RAID5 array, several times. THANK YOU NEWEGG, MY VENDOR OF CHOICE
wish i had seen the seller ratings before
Sames as others: -3 weeks, still no product -bogus tracking # -they said "we ship USPS therefore no tracking #"