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Michael E.

Michael E.

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Most Favorable Review

Perfect

Sans Digital 4 Bay eSATA Port Multiplier JBOD Tower Storage Enclosure (no eSATA Card bundle) TR4M+BNC
Sans Digital 4 Bay eSATA Port Multiplier JBOD Tower Storage Enclosure (no eSATA Card bundle) TR4M+BNC

Pros: Enclosure is well made and efficiently designed. My Case was on tight and took 30 minutes to gently pry open (slight adjustments to case tabs fixed.

Cons: Port Multiplier driver capable e-SATA chipset required. Be safe and assume your e-SATA is not compatible. I honestly dislike the rear LED fan.

Overall Review: Port Multiplier tech is on Adapter side (in the computer) If only drive 1 shows up, then the drivers are not installed/updated or HBA controller does not support Port Multiplier. If drives dissapear after a few hours of use, or lack of use, it's windows power management. Disable Harrdrive powerdown.

Most Critical Review

I's Ok

PC Treasures 9010 Black Lyrix JIVE Water Resistant Bluetooth  Speakers
PC Treasures 9010 Black Lyrix JIVE Water Resistant Bluetooth Speakers

Pros: Small portable speaker, decently loud volume, suction cup base.

Cons: I highly doubt this would survive more than a small splash of water. Controls are awkward, and slow. Tapping the volume up and down lags about 1-2 seconds to take affect. The silicone exterior rattles and buzzes with certain frequencies. Full volume is distorted, 2 ticks down to fix it.

Overall Review: Speaker phone works, but control has a 1-2 second lag, hung up on test calls before figuring that one out. It is fun to stick to a window and scare someone with a soundboard app. ;-)

Android only

Wirelss Wifi Direct Dongle HDMI Miracast Multi Media Player DLNA Sharing
Wirelss Wifi Direct Dongle HDMI Miracast Multi Media Player DLNA Sharing

Pros: Miracast on Android works perfectly, everytime. 2 phones and 3 tablets. Expected lag is not that bad.

Cons: Will not connect to an Intel Miracast windows system to save it's life. Went trough all of the systems that support Miracast from Windows 7-8.1, all fresh installs and those systems all work fine with my new receiver from local Best Buy.(twice the price)

Overall Review: Miracast is a finicky protocol from Intel, poorly implemented in many products, each with their own flavor. I have found none that work well enough for most Miracast devices to connect to. Also Miracast really only works if the transmitting device is less than 15-20 ft. For my presentation room project we found a Wireless HDMI dongle adapter. Less lag and no latency. This product is made by zkchina.com.cn as the W-18. no real help there, but perhaps someday....

Speedy, Odd Duck

WINTEC FileMate 16GB Mobile Professional Class 10 microSDHC Card with SDHC Adapter - Retail
WINTEC FileMate 16GB Mobile Professional Class 10 microSDHC Card with SDHC Adapter - Retail

Pros: Card is fast, transfer rate tested, Card was optimized at 512 byte multiple (4096 Byte) sectors, aligned at 24 sectors at 20-24Mbps tested transfer rate NTFS. Random RW tested for 2 days at that rate, 0 errors

Cons: When partitioning the card I noticed the origonal partition started at sector 24, something wierd is done with the first sectors causing corruption at random times (if you never reformat it should be fine), advanced partitioning was used to partition the card aligned from sector 24

Overall Review: On my Droid 0G I had to learn how to manually partition the card with FAT32/EXT4/Swap partition, none of the automatic partitioning tools would work. Avoiding the first 1MB, it has been rock solid speed deamon since. After all the reviews I don't trust it, and have setup an ADB script to image the card as backup. Phone is now 4-5X faster now, I'm happy.

12/20/2011

Works very well

Samsung Over-The-Ear Stereo/Mono Bluetooth Headset w/ Dedicated on & off Switch Black Bulk (WEP 870)
Samsung Over-The-Ear Stereo/Mono Bluetooth Headset w/ Dedicated on & off Switch Black Bulk (WEP 870)

Pros: Phone Profile works and is responsive, some headsets have a 2-3 second delay, this one is approx 1/2 sec on average. Stereo Profile works great, but some phones have improper codec config and sound quality suffers, but that is the phone. And the stereo profile works with the lanyrd unplugged, great for audio books. Neck lanyard is very comfortable and I haven't lost of destoryed it yet.

Cons: Compared to Jawbone for mic pickup and noise cancelling it sucks. But compared to the other 9 headset's I've killed in the last year it rocks. Using phone on the lanyard mic is hanging on the shirt and they hear the shuffeling of the shirt.

Overall Review: The unit is too heavy to fit in the ear without the earloop, but overall it is comfortable.

Impressed at every page

Canon PIXMA MP620 2921B023AA Up to 26 ppm Black Print Speed 9600 x 2400 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB / Wi-Fi InkJet MFC / All-In-One Color Printer
Canon PIXMA MP620 2921B023AA Up to 26 ppm Black Print Speed 9600 x 2400 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB / Wi-Fi InkJet MFC / All-In-One Color Printer

Pros: The printer has been a workhorse, even in economy fast mode the output has been devoid of major print flaws. I have a mixed environment of PC's, MAC, Unix, Win7 all have been more than useable. The scanner is smooth and quick, even with multiple users. Built in templates for printing blank notepaper, grid paper etc has actually been very usefull for the kids.

Cons: The ink is a little on the light side on plain paper, not nearly as vivid as HP, but for 1/3 the cost of ink it is not bad at all. I am a Wireless administrator, Wireless has limits and the printer cannot overcome them, it will slow performance if used on wireless, whenever possble setup on ethernet. USB card reader can really only be used by one computer at a time, (I got it to work with 2, bad things happen)

Overall Review: As a document printer this is a great unit. As a photo printer on Photo paper this is a great unit. As a photo printer on non photo paper this is a poor unit.