Category Archives: Product Reviews

My experiences with and opinions of various computer hardware and consumer electronics equipment

AMI (now LSI) MegaRAID Express 466 Ultra 2

4/1/2004 – 1:30 pm

I obtained an AMI MegaRAID card today. It’s quite slick. Since it’s so hard to find specifications about the card online, I thought I’d publish the information I have found. My particular card is an AMI MegaRAID Express 200, series 466. Dell sold these cards with their PowerEdge 2400 series servers [...]

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L7S7A2

3/2/2004 – 11:23 pm

A few weeks ago I purchased ECS’ L7S7A2 mainboard. I have had some time to share some experiences with it and now its time to review the time I spent with it.
The short of it is: Don’t buy this mainboard.
For a more detailed explanation, read on. First, although superficial the board came [...]

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Dell’s proprietary PSUs are evil

2/25/2004 – 11:43 pm

Dell gets a huge thumbs down for shipping proprietary ATX PSUs with the _standard_ ATX connector, but different wiring.
proprietary PSUs and a ready made adapter.
While the link above details how you can manually convert a standard ATX PSU to work with a Dell mainboard, it’s ridiculous that one would need to take such action.
Based on [...]

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Fun with AOpen’s H700A case

2/20/2004 – 2:20 pm

I was excited to receive my AOpen H700A last night. It was a huge, heavy, roomy case. The photos online do not quite do it justice. This huge monster has enough room for any modest server.
When the package arrived, I excitedly dragged it upstairs and opened it up. The side panel [...]

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