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Keith H.

Keith H.

Joined on 06/16/02

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Most Favorable Review

Excellent NAS board

SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPA-H-O Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR2 667
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPA-H-O Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR2 667

Pros: Great stability, form factor, SATA ports, PCI-E.

Cons: Only real con is the cost, but it's worth it.

Overall Review: I use this in my unraid server, no issues what so ever with it. And it's very nice on the power consumption.

Most Critical Review

14 months later

Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRS 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRS 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Was cheap.

Cons: However, I've got 18 pending allocated sectors. 18 is rather a high amount. This is causing me to rebuild my raid array and force the drive into a total destructive test. Yea, to ensure it's good I'm wiping all data on this single drive, (doing a 3 wipes and 3 reads, to ensure all sectors are good).. It's not a highly used drive. I write about 500gb a month to it. 14 months for a failure? Too soon.

Overall Review: Yea, it was cheap. So is a yugo. I don't drive a yugo. I guess I'll stick to mother brands. (Sadly, Samsung was my goto drive, but they've been purchased by Seagate. Who I trust as much as a 25 year old 3.5 inch Floppy disk.

Good Cables

NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 Internal Multilane SAS Cable
NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 Internal Multilane SAS Cable

Pros: Well made, strong, sturdy

Cons: Short. These need to be longer to fit comfortably in a 4220 w/ a M1015 or other SATA/SAS card where the connectors are on the back end of the card.

Overall Review: If these had been 1.5 meter length cables, I'd never had to replace all 4 of them. Sadly I spent 80 bucks on 4 of these, only to spend 40 on 4 replacements from Mono-price. Don't skimp on length, get 1.5m for any server racked case and spare yourself some headaches.

11/21/2013

Lasts Forever

Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I purchased this HD on 12-2008. It has 1524 days of power on. It was originally in a laptop, then I transferred it to my HTPC in June of 2010. This is what seagate was known for. Solid, long lasting, dependable drives. What made me check into it is the transfer speed has slowed down to 30MBs over my network.

Cons: Sadly seagate doesn't make products like this anymore.

Horrible Write

Corsair Force Series 3 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GB3A-BK
Corsair Force Series 3 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GB3A-BK

Pros: Read speed is nice

Cons: Horrible Write speeds. Just a update, I did install the latest firmware to this drive 10 days ago, it solved the problem for 3 days.

Overall Review: If corsair wants to keep my business (I've only run corsair ram for 8 years in all of my systems) they need to reimburse me the cost of this drive (Which I will happily ship back on my dime) with a product that actually works worth a dang. This drive does not. I'd be very hesitant to buy another Corsair SSD. I've had much better luck with OCZ (3 drives) and Intel (1 drive).... Corsair? Zero happiness.

10/25/2012

Warranty Spec?

Seagate Constellation ES.2 ST33000651NS 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive New Pull
Seagate Constellation ES.2 ST33000651NS 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive New Pull

Pros: No warranty spec listed

Cons: Without a warranty period listed ... don't purchase

Overall Review: If this had a 1 year warranty, i'd not purchase. If this had a 3 year warranty, i'd not purchase. I want a 4 year (minimum) warranty on my enterprise level drives. What's the warranty on these? Doesn't say. has nice specs, but doesn't list warranty period.