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Derek H.

Derek H.

Joined on 04/05/09

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Most Favorable Review

Love These Drives!

TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: -Basically relabled Hitachi 7K3000s. -3 Year Warranty (Newegg info is incorrect) in the USA. -Cool, quite, stable, RAID friendly. -Very reasonable price!

Cons: None!

Overall Review: I have 8 of these drives running in a RAID 60, on an LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i controller with an HP SAS Expander. Even with the drives negotiating at SATA II (3Gpbs), performance is as good as a RAID 60 could be (large video files, FLAC audio, backups, etc). Single drive performance with ATTO: Max of 247MBps Read. Max of 212MBps Write. Enjoy these drives!

Most Critical Review

New BIOS Update, Still No 2012 Support

ASUS P8B-E/4L ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1155 Intel C204 DDR3 ECC UDIMM
ASUS P8B-E/4L ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1155 Intel C204 DDR3 ECC UDIMM

Pros: Review down below still is the same.

Cons: Review down below still is the same.

Overall Review: New BIOS version (2305) was released on 09/05/2012, but still did not fix the Windows Server 2012 problem. So far I have tried multiple versions (RC, RTM, GA) of Server 2012 Standard/Datacenter, Windows Storage Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Foundation, and Hyper-V Server 2012...all not working. ASUS, fix this! I want to buy two more of these boards, but I am not going to until this is fixed.

Love this thing!

SYBA SY-MRA25023 Back Panel Slot Mount Mobile Rack for 2.5" Laptop Size SATA HDD / SSD
SYBA SY-MRA25023 Back Panel Slot Mount Mobile Rack for 2.5" Laptop Size SATA HDD / SSD

Pros: Perfect what my needs. Metal, feels good and solid. Spring action is firm, and feels great. Drives do not wedge inside like with previous verison (MRA25018).

Cons: None

Overall Review: I am using this in my NUS (Network Unified Storage) Server build (which the build log along with video review of this, can be found over on OCN...if you know what that is). I have it in a Norco RPC-4224 Chassis, which has 24 3.5" hot swap bays, but nowhere to mount a 2.5", unless I wanted to waste one of the hot swap bays. Some people drill holes in the case to mount a drive, but not me. Two of these in spare PCI Bays will give my Boot Drive (Raid 1 with 2 60GB SSDs) a solid footing, and hot swap capability. Love it!

Rosewill FORTRESS-550 - 550-Watt Active PFC Power Supply - Continuous @ 122 Deg. F (50C), 80 PLUS Platinum, ATX 12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92, Intel Haswell, SLI & CrossFire Ready
Rosewill FORTRESS-550 - 550-Watt Active PFC Power Supply - Continuous @ 122 Deg. F (50C), 80 PLUS Platinum, ATX 12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92, Intel Haswell, SLI & CrossFire Ready

Pros: 80 Plus Plat, 7 Year Warranty, Non-modular, price.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I haven't had this PSU but for a week now, and am using it for a server build I am doing. Packaging seems great, and I used a PSU tester to test all connections, and all was good. I prefer non-modular in a non-viewable case/chassis, so that's a pro for me. I had a coupon off Rosewill PSUs, so I go this for around $80. Very happy so far, and will update later.

I love these drives!

Hitachi GST Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I have been using these drives for the past 2 years, as my primary storage drives. I currently have a Raid5 array with 5 of these drives, and performance is great. I have had one drive throw some bad sector warnings causing it to fall out of raid, but RMA was easy and somewhat fast (under 2 weeks). Very satisfied, and will continue to buy HGST 7K3000 drives as my primary storage drives.

Cons: None.

A great unmanaged gigabit switch

TRENDnet 6-Port Unmanaged Gigabit GREENnet Desktop Metal Switch, Ethernet-Network Switch, 16 x 10-100-1000 RJ-45 Ports, 32 Gbps Forwarding Capacity, Lifetime Protection, Black, TEG-S16DG
TRENDnet 6-Port Unmanaged Gigabit GREENnet Desktop Metal Switch, Ethernet-Network Switch, 16 x 10-100-1000 RJ-45 Ports, 32 Gbps Forwarding Capacity, Lifetime Protection, Black, TEG-S16DG

Pros: Got this about 9 months ago, and it's still trucking along like a champ. I probably have 12-14 devices plugged in at all times, and have not had any ports go bad. It's silent. Transfer speeds cap out at around 114MB/s between two Server 2012 Release Preview boxes, which is around 915Mb/s. I am very satisified with the performance, and how it's just a PnP device. Great!

Cons: It doesn't fly?