cover
Abraham S.

Abraham S.

Joined on 02/14/05

0
0

Product Reviews
product reviews
  • 18
Most Favorable Review

Solid piece of hardware

OCZ Diesel 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive OCZUSBDSL8G
OCZ Diesel 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive OCZUSBDSL8G

Pros: I like the solid feel of this stick drive. Bright red LED on endcap, easy to tell when transfer is occuring. Smaller than alot of comparably priced 8gb models. Shorter and not thick like alot of the 4gb units out there. Just looks mean.

Cons: Looks like plastic cap and endcap could crack easy over the long term. Transfer is slightly slower on this 8gb ocz than on my 16gb Corsair. I expected it to beat the larger capacity Corsair frankly but I definitely wouldn't classify it as slow.

Overall Review: No lanyard, and black will make this easy to loose for me personally but I like the clean industrial look of it. The texure makes it feel perfect.

Most Critical Review

Price:Performance ratio is right.

Panasonic ES4026NC Sonic-2 Men's Pro-Curve Wet/Dry Shaver
Panasonic ES4026NC Sonic-2 Men's Pro-Curve Wet/Dry Shaver

Pros: Cheap, easy to clean with the wet/dry feature.

Cons: Not as efficient or as close shaving as a Norelco or Braun. Matter of a fact it's not as fast as a regular blade for me. Takes too many passes to get an area cleaned up. Then it dumps the shavings back out on you at times. I've never had that happen with another electric razor. But for under 20 dollars what did I expect?

Great for freeing up drive bays AND storage space in a RAID setup

Seagate SkyHawk 10TB Surveillance Hard Drive 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST10000VX0004
Seagate SkyHawk 10TB Surveillance Hard Drive 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST10000VX0004

Pros: I have 4 of these running in an 8-bay Synology 1812+ that sees mixed use for NAS/Backup/Surveillance. We just passed the 90-day mark since install and these HDD's are purring along. I have an 8-bay enclosure but run 2 disk fault tolerance so it really reduces the size available for actual use. Replacing 4gb drives with these has really given us some breathing room on available space. We will definitely continue to swap these into our diskstation but may wait until the price drops a little more now that our initial swap has given us ample breathing room.

Cons: Would love to see the $/TB drop some more. I'd definitely finish swapping the remaining 4 bays if the $/TB got to $35/TB and may consider doing a similar swap at my house on my HTPC NAS at that price. I have a feeling it wil be awhile to see that price considering how the Skyhawks price compares to WD's already. Also a con, that is not the HDD's fault so no egg deduction, is the time it takes to rebuild my RAID array on a disk swap. We are talking days to swap a single disk. This is a complaint that Synology has been aware of for awhile but now with 10TB drives it really exacerbates the problem. It took a couple weeks to swap 4 drives IIRC. On the surface that doesn't seem like a big deal, only delaying the instant gratification of increased storage capacity for a couple days... The real issue is it reduces the disk fault tolerance by a drive until it is done rebuilding. For example I have 2 disk tolerance which is degraded to 1 disk tolerance until it is rebuilt but if you have single disk tolerance you have NO safety net until the array is rebuilt. If a drive craps out while you are rebuilding you are back at ground zero.

Overall Review: Definitely will buy again, but will put a pricewatch on it for the time being until the $/TB drops some more. I bought 5 of these but only installed 4. With the slow array rebuild time on my Synology (days) I wanted to be able to do an immediate swap if a drive failed and not lose a day or two on shipping. Just a suggestion if you want to be a little ahead of the game.

Great kit

Kingston SSDNow V-Series SNV125-S2BN/128GB 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) Notebook bundled accessory kit
Kingston SSDNow V-Series SNV125-S2BN/128GB 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) Notebook bundled accessory kit

Pros: The benefits of SSD are obvious so all of that applies ot the pros. The REAL pro to this in my eyes is the ease of use that the kit provides. Nice little external enclosure, the bundled software is very well done and the cd is bootable. I've used this kit for the SSD as well as other conventional HD swaps on laptops and I love it! Soooo easy to clone drives/migrate data.

Cons: I'm 100% satisfied, no cons.

Great value

Acer Aspire 15.6" Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit AS5739G-6959
Acer Aspire 15.6" Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit AS5739G-6959

Pros: Solid feel to the construction, Beautiful blue exterior, adds style but not gaudy. Good form factor and good port placement. Screen resolution is fine, nothing mind blowing but satisfactory. Hard drive is a large 5400 but the 5400 performance really isn't bad. WD Blue HD. Good bang for the buck.

Cons: The trackpad works good but it is molded into the palmrest area so it has a learning curve to train you where it is. It is not as defined as a normal undermounted trackpad. Very minor issue though and as stated easily overcome with seat time.

Overall Review: I put a SSD drive in it and it added a good amount of pep to the computer but in all honesty I was suprised at how well the 5400 drive did considering the rpm/capacity. Definitely give the factory HD a chance as you will probably find it satisfactory!

Best bang for the buck

Logitech Z-2300 200 watts RMS 2.1 Speaker System
Logitech Z-2300 200 watts RMS 2.1 Speaker System

Pros: To get any better sound you would have to buy something other than "PC Speakers" and enter to the realm of serious equipment IMO. The sub would work for the average joe's hometheater so for PC use it is pretty stout! The desktop speakers are good performers for their size and past about 66% power really need to be tweaked b/c of distortion. But they get loud before they get distorted so enjoy!

Cons: There simply aren't any for me. Great execution in this design. The appearance isn't conservative if it is going to be in a formal office but that is not what this mouse is about. That is realllllly digging deep to come up with a con.