Joined on 04/15/02
Good portable backup drive with USB 3.0

Pros: - 500 GB external storage, accessible via USB 3.0 interface (internally 5400rpm 8MB cache SATA 3.0 Gbps drive) - quiet, reliable, relatively fast (over 80 MB/sec sequential read over USB 3.0, over 109 MB/sec sequential read over SATA 3.0 Gbps) - very solid construction of external enclosure and shock protection - a hard drive that was constantly moved between home and office and survived all the trips without losing data or worsening mechanical contact between cable and enclosure - includes free software for Windows and Mac to make backups to a public storage cloud
Cons: - requires careful disassembly of enclosure to allow connecting over SATA 3.0 Gbps interface; this was only needed when connecting the drive to any machine that did not have USB 3.0 interface - warranty could be longer - the drive still works though, no bad sectors or other media or mechanical defects
Overall Review: It could use an external eSATA connector for a few dollars more. I tested this drive extensively for many months as a Newegg EggXpert and must say that quality of Seagate hard drives exceeded my past experiences.
cheap but i prefer startech

Pros: - cheap - 2 eSATA ports
Cons: - no physical stabilizer included with the card - it's too easy to accidentally move it sideways in the wide ExpressCard slot (especially that my laptop has its optical drive located directly under it) and disconnect your external hard drive(s), causing data loss how expensive is it to add a piece of plastic with a small metal part to this product? - problems with being recognizing in Windows 7 64-bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit - even installing drivers from manufacturer's Website did not help - device remains unrecognized. - it worked last year, it doesn't this year with the same laptop - no physical or electrostatic damage done to it, as far as i am concerned.
Overall Review: i recently bought Startech eSATA card, slightly more expensive, but has a plastic stabilizer for the wide ExpressCard slot), is recognized by the OS easily, works fine. i gave away this card as it no longer seemed worth the effort of trying to get it to work. i still have an older Rosewill RC-604 PCMCIA card with 2 eSata ports which i use with another laptop (Windows XP), and this one is recognized and works fine.
follow up review

Pros: I'm no audio professional, but these convinced me that I had no reason to spend any more money on very high quality headphones. there is no loss of functionality. the bass is as rich as always, the high tones are almost heard by the neighbor's dogs, and the entire frequency spectrum is well reproduced. love them for DJ music. long cable is a very nice feature, very useful.
Cons: none. I'm sticking with JVC for headphones for the last 2 years and in the predictable future.
Overall Review: no need for > $100 Senheisers or other brands. this is the product that will give you best value and quality of manufacturing and sound in over 80% of cases - if you're a true audiophile and can detect the difference with more expensive headphones, go for other brands. I don't need to, and I'm very far from being hearing challenged.
Solid, high quality performers

Pros: great for RAID arrays quality performance low temps good warranty (so good, I don't have to use it) they're Western Digital, and for the past 10-15 years I had almost no problems with this manufacturer, while Seagate drives purchased in the past were at least questionable in quality.
Cons: going up in price?? whatever - they're still worth it.
Overall Review: Newegg packaged them very well. I got 4 of them, none was DOA, all of them keep working 24/7 since I got them in November 2013. absolutely zero problems. highly recommended for prosumer level RAID arrays.
Dell is the way to go for very high resolution monitors

Pros: I got Dell U2713HM almost a year ago (2560x1440). the quality was not only good, it was flawless, I recommended to my employer to buy around 10 of these, especially for the price. None of the monitors showed any problems (and it's been 10+ months now). Now I do want to switch to this model, due to the resolution, and the Dell quality I've been trusting for very many years. Other manufacturers of monitors with similar resolution just don't do the job good enough to create something that has absolutely no problems. I'm own a few ASUS and Acer monitors, and none of them hold the candle to the Dell monitors, whether it was 24" 1920x1200 model, or my current 2560x1440 one. the value for functionality and quality (crispiness of image, contrast, color reproduction even for models not targeted at graphical designers, quality of manufacturing) is peerless in the industry, once you can wait until Dell drops initial sky-high pricing.
Cons: can't think of any. couldn't think of any for the past 10 years. not even a single dead pixel.
Overall Review: I really do want to replace my current U2713HM with one or even better, two of these.
Scared of Seagate HDs for years and having valid reasons for that

Pros: one would think that 4TB 64MB cache SATA 6.0Gb/s drive should be fantastic
Cons: I can see so many DOA reviews, and COMPLETELY ZERO response from manufacturer (Seagate), that I have very valid reasons to avoid Seagate hard drives at any cost. It cannot be blamed on Newegg for packaging (they got it improved A LOT). I'm deeply distrustful to Seagate for a couple of years now, and that's based on personal bad experiences with their drives. Seeing so many reviews mentioning DOA or seeing the drives fail way before end of warranty, and with absolutely no responsibility from the manufacturer to respond to any of the reviews (ZERO) makes me convinced that whenever it comes to non-enterprise overpriced HDs, Seagate keeps milking customers for money with shoddy drives and non-existent quality control for the past 10 years (and I bought over 30 drives during that time). My Western Digital hard drives fail too, but for every 1 WD drive I get 5 Seagate drives becoming very expensive paperweights (not mentioning value of lost data).
Overall Review: no, I didn't buy Seagate drives for the past few years, and I don't intend to. stick with Western Digital - even the Green series is more reliable than the 1-2 year "warrantied" Seagate desktop and NAS drives. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.