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Cuong V.

Cuong V.

Joined on 05/08/06

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Awesome!!

Rosewill R2-JBOD - Aluminum 3.5" SATA I / II USB 2.0 Dual-Bay External Enclosure
Rosewill R2-JBOD - Aluminum 3.5" SATA I / II USB 2.0 Dual-Bay External Enclosure

Pros: Solid construction. Easy install. Supports larger than 1TB drives. Installed a 1.5TB and a 2TB and copy 1.2TB from one drive to another. Took 24hrs to complete.

Cons: Kinda heavy, but that's expected when you have 2 drives in it. Speed was kinda slow. About 14MB/s - understandable because it was both in the enclosure.

Fast!

OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX

Pros: This thing is fast. Instead of buying a single 60GB HD, I bought 2 of these things and RAID them. I got them on sale for about ~$110 a piece and I am really impressed. Waiting for it to be on sale again before I get another 2.

Cons: Price went up...

Fast, reliable RAM

HyperX T1 Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2T1K2/4G
HyperX T1 Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2T1K2/4G

Pros: Looks awesome, runs at advertised speed, solid performance and structure, runs cool, easily overclocked, 5.9 on Windows Experience Index (8GB total).

Cons: Very large. Did not immediately recognized as 1066, but it was easily changed.

Overall Review: With this RAM, I finally have a 5.9 Windows Experience Index. :D

Great laptop.

Acer Aspire 18.4" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit AS8930-6174
Acer Aspire 18.4" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit AS8930-6174

Pros: Huge screen, 4GB RAM @1066, big HD, 1GB of graphics, fingerprint reader, and the sound is nice. Also, quite cheap for these specs.

Cons: Heavy, hard to find a case for, and somewhat short battery life. No option for quad-core here on newegg. No free shipping...

Overall Review: @Paul S. I don't mean to be rude, but I found it was extremely odd when you said that acer does not have a tech contact so I went to their site and immediately found it (acer.com > United States > Contacts (lower left) > Products & Services > Local contacts). As for driver downloads, I reached download speeds up to 1.5MB/s (not 1.5Mb/s). Glad I bought it from newegg, got it fast.

Best DVD media

Verbatim 4.7 GB 16X DVD+R 100 Packs Spindle Disc Model 95098
Verbatim 4.7 GB 16X DVD+R 100 Packs Spindle Disc Model 95098

Pros: Burned over 500 of these DVDs, not a single coaster. DVD still works after several years.

Cons: None.

Absolutely Incredible!!

Western Digital WD Green WD10EADS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD10EADS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Got it right out of the box, plugged it in and quick formatted with Windows' Disk Management (took less than 10 seconds, I dunno why it took 4 hours for others). At first, I tried WD Lifeguard tools, but I had Vista (it doesn't support Vista for some reason), so I just used the Disk Management. Got it up and running in 5 minutes. Copied a 1080p HD movie to it; then while watching the movie, copied 300GB to it. The video was smooth as butter and still got transfer speed of ~55MB/s. The drive was kind of warm during the transfer, nothing unusual though.

Cons: Didn't come with fries.

Overall Review: Shoulda gotten two more... will do so later (after I confirm this drive can last a few months).