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Brandon G.

Brandon G.

Joined on 02/12/14

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Most Favorable Review

Worth it for 4TB, 5 Year warranty, silent and fast.

TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Pros: I have over 10 of these in my AMD 1800X, no raid or storage spaces, drive copy/move speed is around 160-180MB/s I've even seen it go up to 200MB/s for a hard working drive, it does not get hot. It's recognized by my Syba 4 Port Add-on card, and even by my IOCrest 4 port card and speeds are just the same. I'll by these all the time for the price of 90$

Cons: No Cables or Screws, what a waste, at least put in 4 screws or a SATA cable I mean come on.

Overall Review: These are not made for RAID cards, however II do have a system that I built that runs 8 of these, and 3 months so far without any issue and speeds are ridiculous. They do get hot tho. Formats out to.

Most Critical Review

Replaced Keyboard.

Logitech MK120 Desktop Keyboard & Mouse Combo
Logitech MK120 Desktop Keyboard & Mouse Combo

Pros: It's a keyboard, plug it into USB and go. However the rubber boot had some off I had to glue it back on.

Cons: Had to glue the rubber boot back on so the keyboard wouldn't go sliding across my desk.

Fast enough for the family gaming computer!

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Cezanne (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.9 GHz Socket AM4 65W AMD Radeon Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000252BOX
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Cezanne (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.9 GHz Socket AM4 65W AMD Radeon Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000252BOX

Pros: -- Has optional onboard video -- Comes with Wraith Cooler (temps range from 35c up to 55c) -- Works great with VM's into older games.

Cons: None really, the family isn't into playing games at ultra settings, but even if they wanted too, we did add on a 12gb Nvidia 3060.

Overall Review: I would recommend this if you working on a budget, but if you need more cores go for the 5700g.

Works great for my server.

MSI Ventus GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Graphics Card GTX 1650 D6 Ventus XS OCV3
MSI Ventus GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Graphics Card GTX 1650 D6 Ventus XS OCV3

Pros: I needed a video card as my Ryzen didn't have onboard video, I also wanted something that would help with transcoding for plex and also ffmpeg encoding for video editing.

Cons: None, card is overkill, but for the price tag of 159$ why bother getting anything else.

Overall Review: Should have gotten two of these.

12/14/2023

Using this in a Rosewill 4U Server 15 Bay Rack

CORSAIR RMx Series (2021) RM1000x CP-9020201-NA 1000 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
CORSAIR RMx Series (2021) RM1000x CP-9020201-NA 1000 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: -- 14 SATA Power Connectors -- Molex Connectors for drive shuckers -- Enough PCi-e connectors for at least 4 Video Cards -- Cables are strong enough and are easy to attach everything without any issues. -- Worth the price, even if I'm not using anywhere near the 1000w

Cons: None really, except it's heavy.

Overall Review: Would buy it again.

12/14/2023

Excellent! 3/3 No DOA's No Errors.

WD Red Plus 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD80EFAX
WD Red Plus 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD80EFAX

Pros: -- Fast Speed's, I had five of these already and I added another three, then bought another two more for 10 total in my plex master box, streaming increased into which 8 people in the house can stream 1080p with no lag! -- Fast copy speeds over network, I have a 10gb network and when I move files from one computer to another, the speeds range from 280-300MB/s, which is just insane, I copy to a cache drive which is SSD and then from there it will put the file on my Unraid server.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: I use these drives in all my NAS systems and HTPC's. I even have 4tb red in my main pc, however I changed it out with more performance drives as my games require speed.

10/23/2019