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Christopher M.

Christopher M.

Joined on 04/23/02

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Most Favorable Review

Amazing reception!!

Winegard DGS2200 Satellite TV - Receivers & Accessories
Winegard DGS2200 Satellite TV - Receivers & Accessories

Pros: This is an amazing product. Even with the antenna indoors on the second floor of our house, we're able to receive 22 DTV channels, including ones that antennaweb says I don't have a chance of receiving. This is a "green" antenna (supposedly up to 30 mile range) and we're getting strong signals from "red" stations almost 60 miles away - and that's with the thing inside! Can't imagine how well it'll do when we actually mount it outside on the roof!

Cons: Isn't free? :P

Overall Review: If you want to get even stronger signal strength, you can purchase the Winegard GS-Wing Sensar upgrade attachment, it's supposed to give you a 100% boost in UHF signal strength (which is what 90% of our DTV channels are.) NewEgg doesn't offer it, but you can find it elsewhere for under $30, and the customer reviews say that it lives up to its expectations too.

Most Critical Review

Ok, but could be better

Vantec NexStar TX 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive / SSD Enclosure - Model NST-210S2-BK
Vantec NexStar TX 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive / SSD Enclosure - Model NST-210S2-BK

Pros: - Aluminum case - Inside of the enclosure is larger, so you could fit fairly fat drives

Cons: Plastic ends are fairly cheap with super tiny screws holding them in place, and if you're not careful (or just swap drives too much,) you'll strip out the screw holes (I've already stripped out a screw hole just trying to put the thing together the first time... Doesn't have a separate power connector to allow you to use an external power supply if your drive takes more juice than you can/want to provide via USB. The larger size of the case could potentially allow the drive to flop around, and keeps the drive from actually touching the enclosure, so the whole aluminum part is kind of pointless. You have to attach a little tiny plastic sheet to the PCB side of the hard drive to protect it from potentially shorting out against the case

Overall Review: I'd purchased two of these to replace the old Rosewell IDE drive enclosures I'd been using for backups because the hard drives were running out of space, and I didn't want to buy new larger IDE laptop drives. If I'd had it to do over again, I would've just paid a little bit extra to get the SATA version of the Rosewell enclosurest.

Not looking promising

Team Group CX2 2.5" 2TB SATA III 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253X6002T0C101
Team Group CX2 2.5" 2TB SATA III 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253X6002T0C101

Pros: One drive has worked for an hour so far.

Cons: The other drive hasn't worked correctly, replacement ordered.

Overall Review: Ordered two at the same time; I've had them for less than an hour. One of the drives seems ok...so far. The other drive reports itself as 1GB half of the reboots that I've done. The other reboots it shows up as 2TB as expected. No data has been written to the drives yet. I've tried flipping the SATA connections, but the issue followed the drive. When the issue happens, the bad disk fails a SMART test, and reports "SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability." I'm quickly regretting buying TEAM disks, should have spent more for Samsungs. Hopefully the replacement drive comes quickly and works...

Works great as a Debian Xen host

ASRock J5040-ITX Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo
ASRock J5040-ITX Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo

Pros: Very low power, relatively powerful.

Cons: For my needs, I'd prefer to have a better pcie slot than a second set of sata ports. Wish that they supported a legacy BIOS instead of requiring UEFI. Only one NIC

Overall Review: I've had two of these boards for a few months now. Both are running as Debian Xen dom0's. One has 16GB of memory, the second has 12GB. Both have been working very well, each running half a dozen Debian VMs. They run very cool, each server consuming around 15-20 watts at full load. I do wish that they had a faster pcie slot though; I only need one SATA port so would have been more than willing to give up the extra onboard SATA controller.

Failed after a few months

SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC Flash Card with adapter – Global Model SDSDQUAN-032G-G4A
SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC Flash Card with adapter – Global Model SDSDQUAN-032G-G4A

Pros: Small, cheap, fast

Cons: Used in my Samsung Galaxy S5. Phone started locking up when trying to access the device after a few months; pulled it out and tried to access it on my wife's Windows 7 laptop, but it couldn't. Popped it into my Linux laptop and ran an fsck, came back with about three dozen unaccessible clusters, even after a format.

Good, sturdy case

New OtterBox Commuter Case for iPhone 4/4S - Yellow/Grey (*All Carriers*) AT&T - Verizon - Sprint
New OtterBox Commuter Case for iPhone 4/4S - Yellow/Grey (*All Carriers*) AT&T - Verizon - Sprint

Pros: Good, sturdy case, feels good in your hand, doesn't add a ton of bulk. I carry my iPhone 4S around in my pocket and you can hardly tell that it's there. The silicone inner jacket gives it the feel that if I were to drop it, it would be well-protected, but the polycarbonate outer shell keeps the inner jacket held in place well, and gives that extra feeling of sturdiness. It's nice that they included a screen protector as well.

Cons: The screen cover looks funny when viewed from the side, almost like how an oil slick looks on water, and gets smudged with your fingerprints pretty easily.