Brandon Whitehead's Tech Blog

Here we are back at it again! Check out the new listings I just put up if you're interested at all. All of these listings will be live for 30 days except this time over on Jawa  instead of eBay.

Quick gallery of images before getting to the review ADATA XPG SX8200 SSD Rating ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Pros Performance Price  Paid $49.99+tax for it Management software  Mine works but has an interesting bug. It shows my SSD as being at 65,263 Degrees Celsius for its current operating temperature #FIRE Included heatsink is nice  Although, I'm not using it Cons 240GB version has a little bit slower performance than the higher capacity versions of this drive but I doubt it's truly noticeable Other Thoughts I bought this to replace my previous M.2 NVMe boot drive (a 1TB HP EX920) on my gaming PC. I migrated the 1TB SSD to an Intel NUC so I needed a new boot drive for my gaming PC. I no longer needed 1TB of space so I started looking at 240-256GB capacity drives. Newegg/ADATA happened to put this 240GB drive on sale so I immediately grabbed it after reading some very positive reviews of this drive. Compared to a lot of the other options, this ...

Just a couple of pictures of the packaging the SSD arrived in from Amazon. I guess it really is "frustration free". Crucial MX 500 2TB SSD Rating ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Pros Capacity (2 TB of solid state storage!!) Price (Paid about $0.10/GB [$208.99] total during an Amazon flash sale on Cyber Monday) Speed (Plenty fast for a SATA based SSD) Longevity (Not one of the new quad-level cell [QLC NAND] SSDs so it should handle more write cycles) Management software (Firmware updates/extra features/etc…) Cons None Other Thoughts I've been looking at options for getting mass storage in my ITX build and I was hopeful that a good deal on a multi terabyte capacity SSD would show up around the Black Friday/Cyber Monday season. Sure enough, Amazon put this one on sale. It was very hard to resist at that price. I looked at several 1TB options around the $120-$140 range but I wanted something with a bit more capacity without having to pay over double the cost of so...

Update: 9/9/2018 I added a few more listings below... feel free to check them out! Here we are back at it again! Check out the new listings I just put up if you're interested at all. One of these listings will be live for 30 and the other for 7 days unless someone scoops it up with the Buy It Now Price. Seagate 2000GB 2TB SATA III 6Gbps 5900RPM NAS Hard Disk Drive [HDD] ST2000VN000 Sold Seagate Ebay Listing Intel SSD 600p Series SSDPEKKW512G7X1 512 GB M.2 80mm PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Sold Intel SSD Listing NZXT Grid+ V2 USB 6 Channel Digital Fan Controller (Controlled with NZXT CAM) Sold Grid+ V2 Listing SilverStone SX500-LG SFX-L 500w 80Plus Gold Small Form Factor (SFF) Power Supply Sold SilverStone SX500-LG Drevo Calibur Wireless RGB Mechanical Keyboard Black w/ Black Switches & O-Rings Sold Drevo Calibur Black Switch Black

Hello everyone! Listed below will be a few Newegg reviews that I've recently submitted for some products I've been testing. I figured it would be easier to just include links to these vs double posting the information. Hope you find them useful! Toshiba X300 5TB Performance Desktop and Gaming Hard Drive 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive Retail Packaging HDWE150XZSTA Too noisy for me but performs wonderfully https://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?displaytype=share&reviewgroupid=6588885 Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80677I77700K Desktop Processor It's an i7, it's my first one and it works great  https://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?displaytype=share&reviewgroupid=525527 Dell Gaming S2417DG YNY1D 23.8-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor with G-SYNC A Cheap Yet Premium Gaming Monitor  https://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?displaytyp...