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Donald G.

Donald G.

Joined on 12/05/03

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Most Favorable Review

The one I got is Bluetooth V3.0

Victake Wireless Bluetooth Hands-free Car Kit FM Transmitter MP3 Player Charger with Dual USB Type A Charging Port, LCD Digital Screen,3.5mm Audio Mic Port For all  iPhone and Android Smartphones
Victake Wireless Bluetooth Hands-free Car Kit FM Transmitter MP3 Player Charger with Dual USB Type A Charging Port, LCD Digital Screen,3.5mm Audio Mic Port For all iPhone and Android Smartphones

Pros: - Easy to use, plug and play - Sound quality is good, just need to turn up volume a bit - Flex head is good, helps to adjust it from interfering with shift lever and dashboard controls

Cons: - Specs say it's Bluetooth V4.0, but the label on box says specifically says it's Bluetooth V3.0 - Newegg, you need to correct this

Overall Review: - Make sure to chose a clear FM frequency, i.e. no programming on adjacent freq's, otherwise you'll get static - If you believe that you get what you pay for, I wouldn't want go any less expensive than this

Most Critical Review

they're SMR, so not sure

WD Red 6TB NAS Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX
WD Red 6TB NAS Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFAX

Pros: My QNAP NAS had a failing 5 yr old 4TB WD Red in RAID1, so I bought 2 of these to replace and grow to 6TB. Installed and restored data, drives have been working fine for almost a week now.

Cons: Right after I placed my order, all kinds of tech articles came out exposing WD for using Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) vs the Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) in all of their Red drives up through 6TB. Claim is that SMR write speed is much slower and WD omitted info about it from their specs/literature.

Overall Review: I'm not a heavy duty user, I store video/photo/music files on it, and they work fine. However, I'll be watching for performance or reliability problems. It's not only WD that's doing SMR drives, Seagate and others are as well. If it really matters to you, be sure to research before buying..

1 of 3 DOA, other 2 OK

WD Red Plus 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 128MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD40EFZX
WD Red Plus 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 128MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD40EFZX

Pros: CMR is good, capacity for price is great, low noise level is good.

Cons: 33% DOA rate is disheartening

Overall Review: Expanding my Qnap NAS's capacity into a RAID5 and I purchased (3) 4TB Red's to go with a 4th that I had previously purchased. When I powered it on, 1 of the new drives showed 0TB, so I tried relocating it to another bay and same thing. Returned it to Newegg for a refund and I bought another one, which worked fine.

It works, but the specs don't match the device I received

RCA AV to HDMI Converter Adapter Mini Composite CVBS to HDMI AV2HDMI Converter in Retail Package 1080P
RCA AV to HDMI Converter Adapter Mini Composite CVBS to HDMI AV2HDMI Converter in Retail Package 1080P

Pros: It produces a reasonably clear 1080p upscaled HDMI image from a source that is 480i, the RCA AV (i.e. composite) outputs of my old DirectTV SD receiver.

Cons: It outputs 50 Hz/fps, not 60 as shown in the specs tab. I would have given it 5 stars if it was 60.

Overall Review: Recently converted distribution cabling from coax to HDMI and use a matrix switch to select between several sources, and the HDMI output from this converter gets scrambled on some display devices. Noticed the HDTV identifies output signal as a 1920/1080/50p, which some displays cannot properly handle.

11/22/2017