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William P.

William P.

Joined on 10/24/06

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2 out of 4 failed

HGST Deskstar 7K1000.C 0F10383 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
HGST Deskstar 7K1000.C 0F10383 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: none

Cons: incredible failure rate

Overall Review: 2 out of 4 drives purchased failed in 1 years time. Warranty determined by Hitachi is their build date, not date you purchased it, so you will get less than 3 years warranty time. Stay away from Hitachi.

Battery only lasts 3 years

OPTI-UPS ES1500C-RM 1400 VA 980 Watts 8 Outlets Line Interactive Rackmount UPS w/ AVR
OPTI-UPS ES1500C-RM 1400 VA 980 Watts 8 Outlets Line Interactive Rackmount UPS w/ AVR

Pros: It was rated highly when I bought it for 3 locations. seemed to be best value for the money and high wattage/volt amp capacity.

Cons: All 3 locations need a battery replacement after only 3 years. Should get at least 5 years out of it. Battery replacent costs $108 from Opti-ups.

Overall Review: Just doesnt seem to be a decent, inexpensive, long lasting ups out there.

CHAINTECH GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR PCI Video Card P-FX20
CHAINTECH GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR PCI Video Card P-FX20

Pros: cheap with rebate, good for non gaming.

Cons: The driver CD does not work. Download the driver directly from nvidia. Throw away the cd. And forget about contacting chaintech by email-my reply from them took 5 days.

Overall Review: After trying the driver cd which froze my pc, I attempted to download the driver directly from chaintech's website- the download was listed as 70mb and the estimated time was 8 hours!!!! I tried downloading from other pc's with different ISPs and got the same estimate. Went to NVidia website and got the driver in 3 minutes. Worked perfectly, chaintech uses the same files but adds languages to their driver. Didnt see that great of an improvement from my pc's inbedded intel graphics in XP, but at least the card has a dvi output so the colors are slightly better. In Vista didnt see much change at all.

Horrible-dont buy

MASSCOOL UE211 Aluminum 2.5" IDE USB 2.0 External Enclosure
MASSCOOL UE211 Aluminum 2.5" IDE USB 2.0 External Enclosure

Pros: Nice magnetic sdriver-thats all I'll use after spending 9.99

Cons: THE Y CABLE!!!!! With a 60gb seagate I need both connections to make it work-The problem is the 2nd connection on the "Y" is very short-about 7 inches-now I have to use a bulky usb extension cable.

Overall Review: Buy a drive enclosure from a mfg that doesnt have a usb Y cable!!!

Horrendous - avoid!!!!!

Logitech SBF-90 Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel PS/2 Wired Optical Value Mouse
Logitech SBF-90 Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel PS/2 Wired Optical Value Mouse

Pros: none. Whoever looks in my garbage can will find 3 free mice.

Cons: horrible non smooth scroll wheel. extremely light weight cheap feel.Stay away from this item.

Overall Review: I went by all the good reviews-boy that was a mistake!! Horrible product-just buy a cheap noname mouse and get the same value. The scroll wheel is jerky and not smooth like somethings catching. The 3 I ordered will be going in the garbage.

10/26/2007