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Michael M.

Michael M.

Joined on 03/14/07

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Most Favorable Review

Bought for my Mac mini (2009 3,1 model)

Western Digital Scorpio Black wd5000bpkt 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Scorpio Black wd5000bpkt 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I bought this to replace my 5400rpm 120GB drive for I was running out of space. The new 7200rpm drive is just as quiet and the speed increase is great!

Cons: Everything is working as expected.

Overall Review: I bought a Rosewill USB encloser with my order to put my 5400 drive in it. With super duper for Mac. I was able to swap my content from one drive to the other preventing the need to re-install everything.

Easy to setup and use

GIGABYTE GA-AB350-GAMING 3 (rev. 1.0) AM4 AMD B350 USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-AB350-GAMING 3 (rev. 1.0) AM4 AMD B350 USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Motherboard build quality good and came with F6 BIOS preloaded. Memory underclocked and XMP memory profile wouldn't work on F6, but after flashing to F7 was able to use XMP Memory Profile for bundled Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15) RAM. Using Ryzen 5 1600 CPU and a Nvidia GTX 760 Using motherboard in a HAF 932 was able to utilize all front panel USB 3 and USB 2 Headers and e-sata. So far I like it and is running windows 10 perfectly.

Cons: Nothing.

Overall Review: I've own several Gigabyte boards and so far this is working straight out of the box and they released a new F7 bios allowing memory profile to utilize its intended mhz. Features are what I expected for the price.

Bought 8GB for my Mac mini 2009 (3,1)

Crucial 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model CT51264BC1067
Crucial 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model CT51264BC1067

Pros: The price is great! Worked perfectly in my Early 2009 Mac Mini, which accepts up to 8GB.

Cons: No cons, this is a great price. You should look at your machines allowed memory space and max it out.

Overall Review: Previously the original specs for early 2009 Mac mini was 4GB. It wasn't enough to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine with OS X side by side. It would run, but so slow I decided to just use bootcamp. After realizing Apple released firmware to allow 8GB a while back. I am so happy because it made my machine the ability to run Windows 7 and OS X side by side even for intensive apps like Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, etc.