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William M.

William M.

Joined on 12/21/03

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Most Favorable Review

best keyboard ever

Gigabyte Aivia Osmium Cherry Red Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Blue Back-lit (GK-OSMIUM)
Gigabyte Aivia Osmium Cherry Red Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Blue Back-lit (GK-OSMIUM)

Pros: I did not know that a keyboard this good was possible. A pleasure to press the keys, for work or gaming.

Cons: pricey, but this is one where you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: Given all the money we spend in garbage, this is well worth it.

Most Critical Review

Meh

Seagate SV35.6 ST1000VX000 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Surveillance Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate SV35.6 ST1000VX000 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Surveillance Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Decent performance on RAID 0. Bad drive continued to work even though RAID BIOS is showing the drive as error. Apparently good redundancy somewhere inside, or I am lucky.

Cons: Got 2 of these guys, 1 drive is reporting an error in RAID BIOS after 8 months.

Overall Review: I am giving it 3 eggs because 1 of the 2 drives failed, but then again, it continued to work. At least it gave me a chance to backup and order another drive. Call me an idealist.

This thing is the bomb

OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS 240GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RVD3MIX2-FHPX4-240G
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS 240GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RVD3MIX2-FHPX4-240G

Pros: I just built a 5K+ gaming rig and if I where to single out the best single piece of HW that yields perceivable speed is this guy. Under all bench-marking tools, you will get 500MB/sec+, no questions asked. My favorite stat is access time: 0.00 msecs :D. Windows flies on this thing and Linux and other more asynchronous OSs are real-time, no questions asked. A truly remarkable piece of engineering.

Cons: none. Those who have reported problems made me think that this thing was "fragile" but is not. I have tinkered with the BIOS and other hardware, and even removed BIOS battery several times. This thing POSTs all the time.

Overall Review: This is a no-brainer, get it.