Joined on 01/28/08
Great Pocket Cam
Pros: Great size for a pocket, easy to carry around, a great supplement to a SLR. The upgrade from telescoping rings means fewer moving parts, and the sealed camera greatly reduces dirt and wear.
Cons: none really for 99% of the world. some prosumers / pros may comment about spherical abrasions with the lens while at max zoom, but such people would surely over a thousand dollars in SLR gear.
Overall Review: I owned the TS-10 before this and it too is great, both are working great and going strong.
DOA Batch?
Pros: good price to TB ratio (45$/TB at the time), and historically I favor Seagate over others.
Cons: One of the two I ordered was DoA, as was the grade-A (new, not refurb) replacement drive. After this experience I'm going to return the 2nd drive (again) and go with something else. I base my loyalty to Seagate on the stability of the one working drive in the future.
Overall Review: I bought two drives for a mirror. While my Nvidia NForce 980 does support 3TB HDDs, the raid controller (MediaSheild) does not and so truncates the mirror to 2TB. I'll use robocopy/rsync to manually mirror (backup) my data as this too has its advantages.
640GB vs. 600 GB
Pros: Low ratings due to this drive's failure to meet its 640GB capacity are bogus. Drive capacity has always been in 1024k blocks. 640 GB = 640,000,000,000 B 640,000,000,000 B / 1024 = 625,000,000 KB 625,000,000 KB / 1024 = 610351.6 MB 610351.6 MB / 1025 = 596 GB Thus the drive's capacity after being formatted by windows/linux will be 596 GB. Every drive does this, its an industry standard. Those that give any drive a low rating due to this should not advertise themselves as a 'High' tech rating.
Cons: People with low tech skill advertise themselves as 'high'.
Order stuck in "Packaging" for over a week
Sent multiple messages to the seller; no action or reply. Ordered the same from another store and got them the next day. This will impact my enthusiasm to deal with NewEgg overall. :(