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Ralph N.

Ralph N.

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HP Officejet Pro 8610 (A7F64A) Duplex 4800 dpi x 1200 dpi USB / Ethernet / Wireless Color Thermal Inkjet MFC Printer
HP Officejet Pro 8610 (A7F64A) Duplex 4800 dpi x 1200 dpi USB / Ethernet / Wireless Color Thermal Inkjet MFC Printer

Pros: Define your needs. This is a multifunctional color device with printing, copying, faxing, and scanning. For example, do you need color such as photos? I find the multifunction capability very useful for me. Pros: • Print rates and resolution are very reasonable. Just remember as with any manufacturer these are max values under typically optimum conditions. What I’ve experienced is very reasonable for my usage and needs, i.e. printing, copying, and scanning. • Wireless capable • Typically color printing capabilities are nearly as good or better than black only. • In copying either reduction or enlargement is possible. • Two-sided (duplex) printing possible with duplexer accessory. This printer comes with it. • Document auto feed. • Well packaged.

Cons: • USB ports are USB2, not USB3. • I’m not a big fan of all the software that gets loaded onto your machine. For example, it isn’t easy to find the drivers separately, only an executable. I have a need for those drivers separately. • A knitpick: The downside to excellent packaging is it took me ~20 minutes to remove all the transparent protective tape off the machine. I hate the bubbles that get trapped under it.

Overall Review: • I believe ink replacement cartridges are always an issue with Inkjet printers. I would suggest you check into where, the type (remanufactured or new) and the cost as part of your buying consideration. • Realize that quoted printing, copying, etc. rates are typically a maximum in ideal conditions.

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Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Desktop Desktop External Hard Drive STBV5000100
Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Desktop Desktop External Hard Drive STBV5000100

Pros: - High capacity – good price per TB - Plug-in and go - Built-in registration when you boot it. - USB3 showing ~200MB/s read and ~180MB/s write from test results with 15G file - Portable

Cons: - No on-off switch. To be save, you should shutdown system before unplugging. - 1 year warranty in US (2 years EU) as per box and PDF warranty file included. Far too short for such a big drive. - Long term failure rates on this drive unknown. - How do you backup such a large drive since it would take ~7 hrs if full? For me this is not a practical size for critical usage, i.e., for storage of stuff I can’t afford to lose. - Spending a little time looking around the web and here at Newegg: negatives reviews, 1 egg (or star) runs about 20-25%. Not good.

Overall Review: These are points that may well reflect my personal bias but: - Unclear how I would use it. I would NOT use it to either store or backup critical files, failure would be a catastrophic problem. - If I can’t trust it, why would I buy it?

4 Samsung failed SSDs

SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-76E500B/AM
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-76E500B/AM

Pros: For a long time Samsung SSDs have been my go-to hardware. BUT ...

Cons: Over the last few months (<6) I've had failures. Now have 4 dead Samsung SSDs setting on my desk. Samsung clearly has reliability problems NOW!!!!

Overall Review: Would not recommend any Samsung SATA SSDs.

Poor coverage

Arctic Freezer 33TR - Tower CPU Cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper sTR4 -RED
Arctic Freezer 33TR - Tower CPU Cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper sTR4 -RED

Pros: - Well made device

Cons: - Poor coverage of Threadripper CPU, ~50% - Not sure of use with any other CPUs

Overall Review: - Would not recommend for Threadrippers

Good board but as with most X399 boards it has a few issues

ASUS PRIME X399-A sTR4 AMD X399 USB 3.1 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS PRIME X399-A sTR4 AMD X399 USB 3.1 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: - good audio - good platform - bios update is easy - solid once I got past the AD error code.

Cons: - Tons of error codes but most are listed in manual. - AD error code wasn't listed, after a google found it ocurrs as bios are ready to handoff to the OS. I disconnected all storage except the OS drive (Win10 Pro) and it booted. (You might also just specify the boot drive in the BIOS when several drives are available.) - only 6 x SATA 6Gb/s

Overall Review: I didn't find issues that should prevent you buying this board. While the number of X399 boards is limited, I would class this one as a middle of the road board.

10/21/2017

Dead

BUFFALO 2TB DriveStation DDR - High Speed External Hard Drive
BUFFALO 2TB DriveStation DDR - High Speed External Hard Drive

Pros: Worked well before it died. Semi-reasonable rating since it lasted for a couple years.

Cons: Warranty covers it but I've lost all the data. Not what you want from a HD used to store volumes of less used data. Who wants to backup drives this size? An age old question of course.

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Terrible seller, avoid

Never shipped item

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Good seller

Accurate and successful purchase.

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11/20/2017

Resolving return/refund takes forever.

I needed to return the item for refund. Thus far it has been a slow process requiring a day for each communication and a week has elapsed as my request is considered. Otherwise a reasonable seller.

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11/20/2017