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Andrew K.

Andrew K.

Joined on 06/19/03

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Most Favorable Review

Works very well

ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler
ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler

Pros: Have purchased several of these for X1650 and X1950 cards. Keeps temps low as needed and the fan is quiet. Can't ask for much more...

Cons: Fan connector will not plug into Video card, Zalman fanmate box too big, and pointless IMO. However, fan is still quiet plugged into PSU.

Overall Review: Hangs a little low, on some boards there may be a coil or cap in the way, so be careful of this. Really a solid product, very happy with these.

Most Critical Review

Didn't work

NETGEAR WPNT834 RangeMax 240 Wireless Router IEEE 802.11b/g
NETGEAR WPNT834 RangeMax 240 Wireless Router IEEE 802.11b/g

Pros: None

Cons: See my rating of the matching WPNT834 router: First the router wouldn't work with my Linksys modem, kept shutting off the broadband connection. So since the modem is a few years old, I picked up a Motorola Surfboard. Once re-connected, the router and the Motorola Modem worked fine together. The only problem then was that the wireless adapter could not connect on the other PC. I spent 2 hours per day for two days with Netgear tech support to no avail. Finally, they gave up and told me to return the units.

Overall Review: Picked up a D-link draft N packaged and was up and running in 15 minutes. I will stay away from Netgear in the future.

10/13/2006

Note to people claiming incompatibilty

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Good drive, lasts a long time

Cons: None

Overall Review: If you are not familiar with Western Digital IDE hard drives, then you probably don't know about the unique jumper setting when using the drive as stand alone single drive on IDE channel. DO NOT USE A JUMPER! Proper jumper setting for stand alone master is NO JUMPER. Jumpers are only for Master w/Slave, Slave w/Master, or CS (with compatible hardware). It helps to read the instructions easily found on WD website.

Pretty good box

Synology CS407e Diskless System 4-bay SATA NAS Server
Synology CS407e Diskless System 4-bay SATA NAS Server

Pros: Reasonable price, small footprint, easy to install the drives and set up the OS. Lots of features.

Cons: Volume set up and file transfer is pretty slow, but I guess that is expected for this type of system. BEWARE OF INCLUDED SATA CABLES! I have had several problems with drives dropping out of RAID or HDD and Volume showing problems that could not be solved with a new drive. A little research in their forums indicates that this is a fairly common problem with a common solution of replacing the SATA cables. Guess what, they must use the cheapest cables they could find because since I have replaced them (purchased new short cables) I have had ZERO problems WITH THE SAME DRIVES. Since I use this at home for non-critical file storage (DVD backup), I didn't lose anything important that couldn't easily be recovered. Hence the rating only lost one egg. However, I would be VERY upset if I was using this for critical files or file backup.

Overall Review: I have had the unit for almost a year, and aside from the few problems I resolved, it has worked pretty well. Just make sure that you get your own SATA cables and don't use the included ones if you want to avoid the problems. Google is your friend to find quality short cables that will work for this. Definitely do not recommend for anything critical, I would get a dedicated server or proper backup solution for that.

10/16/2009

People with "HIgh Level" of understanding

Western Digital RE2 WD7500AYYS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital RE2 WD7500AYYS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I use nothing other than WD drives these days, all other brands HDDs have failed at one time or another. Just bought 5 of these to replace some Seagates I bought a few years ago (what was I thinking?)

Cons: I guarantee that 99% of the hard drive failures that result in poor review scores here are due to poor packaging by Newegg and poor handling by the carrier. If Newegg could just get their packaging act together, they would have far fewer "defective product" problems.

Overall Review: To the reviewer below "CameraMan" who claims to have a "high understanding". SAS is Serial Attached SCSI, a different interface than SATA. So I am not surprised that these drives will not be recognized by your controller.

Old fashioned printer still a workhorse

OKIDATA MICROLINE 186 (62422301) - Parallel, USB 9 pin 120V Up to 375cps 240 x 216 Dot Matrix Printer
OKIDATA MICROLINE 186 (62422301) - Parallel, USB 9 pin 120V Up to 375cps 240 x 216 Dot Matrix Printer

Pros: Glad to see that these Microlines are still made. An excellent solution for DOS and continuous feed needs.

Cons: Price a bit high IMO.

Overall Review: Exactly what I needed and received quickly. Works great.

12/28/2008