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David D.

David D.

Joined on 09/02/04

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Most Favorable Review

A great little case

hec Black 0.7mm Thickness SECC 7K09 Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case with 270W FLEX Power Supply
hec Black 0.7mm Thickness SECC 7K09 Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case with 270W FLEX Power Supply

Pros: Small and quiet.

Cons: A little bit of a tight fit, but I knew that going in

Overall Review: I had looked at all the Antec and Silverstone models, and I just couldn't justify the prices to myself. I found this and thought I would try it. I have paired this with an E8400, Asus P5Q-EM Motherboard, a Lite On Blu-Ray Drive, 2 GB Ram, and a single 500GB HDD. So far, I love this case. Now obviously the PSU isn't going to power a high end video card, or fit tons of HDD's, but if you are simply looking for a case to play back DVD's and Blu-Ray's stored on a server, it is a great buy. The case itself is well built, though a bit cramped inside. You will want to be neat with your wiring, and you will want to follow a sequence during installation of MB, CPU,RAM, front panel cabling, CPU Fan, HDD, Optical Drive, otherwise you may have trouble fitting everything. Once everything is installed, the case runs very quiet, and cool. I am using stock cooling for everything and I cannot here it all from my seating position. In fact the Optical drive is by far the noisiest component in the sys

12/30/2008
Most Critical Review

Very poorly designed

Creative ZEN Armband Black 70AB216000011
Creative ZEN Armband Black 70AB216000011

Pros: none

Cons: This is a very poorly designed arm band. There is no window to see what the heck you are doing. Instead you have access to the buttons, but not to screen to see what the buttons are doing. Also, the on/off switch is blocked so you can't turn it off while it is still in the armband. Also the velcro is designed so when you wrap it up when done, you cannot seal it. Do not buy this product

1 out of 2 crashed

Fantom Drives Titanium-II 500GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive TFD500U16
Fantom Drives Titanium-II 500GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive TFD500U16

Pros: Lots of storage, good price

Cons: First of all, the brightness on the LED's is absurd and there is no way to turn them down. Beyond that, I bought two of these in the fall to house movie backups for my HTPC. One died this weekend. They are still under warranty so I can get it replaced, but re-ripping the movies is going to be a pain. I really need to switch to RAID

Overall Review: Hopefully someday we will get a storage medium that doesn't have a 50% fail rate.

Crashed

Cavalry CAUM Series CAUM37500 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Cavalry CAUM Series CAUM37500 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

Pros: Lot's of storage

Cons: I had this drive going for 6 months to house my TV recordings for my HTPC. It crashed on me over the weekend. I sent a request for RMA, but I doubt I will get any data back. I know drives crash, but it is very aggravating when it does. I can't think of any other consumer product that has a failure rate as large as hard drives.

Overall Review: Hopefully will be corrected soon.