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Anthony B.

Anthony B.

Joined on 12/12/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Great, fast, and quiet

Hitachi GST Travelstar 7K100 HTS721060G9SA00 (0A25025) 60GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Travelstar 7K100 HTS721060G9SA00 (0A25025) 60GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: -SATA interface is fast as expected -The drive is whisper quiet -The 7200 RPM delivers great transfer rates, I restored a whole 40 Gb Ghost image in 20 minutes

Cons: What? Like there has to be a con?

Overall Review: Ignore the other chumps who wrote bad reviews of this product, they must have some other axe to grind, because this product is fantastic. I have now purchased 4 Hitachi Travelstar 7200 RPM hard drives and have been utterly pleased with all of them.

Most Critical Review

Screwless + bad design = wishing for screws

Rosewill R5601-BK 0.8mm Japanese Cold Rolled Steel  Screw-less Dual 120mm Fans ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Rosewill R5601-BK 0.8mm Japanese Cold Rolled Steel Screw-less Dual 120mm Fans ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: Lots of space, well laid out cable plan, plenty of "screwless" attachment harnesses and hardware for harddrives and optical drives.

Cons: The optical bays have little tabs poking out into the insertion space, presumably so the screwless harnesses will have something to click into, to lock the drive into place. Unfortunately, the actual result is to prevent the drive from being inserted at all, with the harnesses attached, the optical drive is too wide to fit through the tabs! And the harnesses cannot be installed after the drive is inserted into the slot. I am going to have to get out the pliers and cutter to make this case receive the optical drives.

Overall Review: The screwless design is a great idea, the wholistic design needs some compatibility analysis.

I like it like that!

JetWay A200GDMS 754 ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
JetWay A200GDMS 754 ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: It just does not get any easier. I yoinked all the hardware off my old board (except the processor, which is what was driving the upgrade), and plugged it all in to this new board, turned the computer on and SHAZAM! it worked! No supplemental jerking around at all!

Cons: This is a stretch here, but it would not fit in the Gateway box I had planned for it (this is not really a surprise and it probably is actually a pro that it wouldn't fit in that old piece of junk), so I had to buy some other chassis for $30.