rkaye updated 3 products

rkaye — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:50:08 -0400

1. updated Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro - September 16, 2009 at 8:50 pm

chose Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro over Sennheiser IE 7
chose Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro over Panasonic RP-HJE900
chose Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro over Sennheiser IE 6
chose Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro over Etymotic ER4P

2. updated Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 - September 16, 2009 at 8:33 pm

found Yale's review helpful
disagreed: "isolation can be potentially dangerous in some environments"
agreed: "quite expensive"
agreed: "not as full sounding as the SuperFi 5 Pro"
agreed: "isolation makes listening to music more enjoyable and safe"
agreed: "passive noise canceling provides good isolation without added noise or power requirements"
agreed: "reasonable price considering the sound quality"
agreed: "good for a wide range of music genres"
agreed: "extremely light"

3. updated Sennheiser IE 6 - September 16, 2009 at 8:31 pm

chose Etymotic ER4P over Sennheiser IE 6
chose Sennheiser IE 6 over Panasonic RP-HJE900
chose Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro over Sennheiser IE 6
found Yale's review helpful
agreed: "good isolation - will allow you to enjoy your music in loud environments without entirely removing you from your surroundings"
disagreed: "Sennheiser is not known for their in ear monitors"
agreed: "expensive"

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rkaye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:15:21 -0400

1. updated LaCie 5big Network - September 13, 2009 at 8:15 pm

new pro/con: No media player extensibility; which is especially odd when considering that this product is marketed toward *home* and small business. Should work fine with a Popcorn Hour media server nonetheless.
new pro/con: Most user forums agree that when a drive fails in RAID5, RAID5+, and/or RAID6 that the unit is able to seamlessly recover data and rebuild if a replacement drive is inserted.
new pro/con: No clear instructions on how you would go about upgrading hard drives to larger capacity units. No mention if volume expansion is supported.
new pro/con: No visible online 'hacking' community to develop and share applications or plugins to enhance this hardware. [as opposed to the very rich hack community with other NAS products such as the D-Link DNS-323]
new pro/con: Huge negative: no support for UPS connection via USB -- if the power fails, you NAS crashes. Not sure how anyone could have missed such a glaring oversight.
new pro/con: Has three eSATA posts and one USB expansion port for plugging in additional drives.
new pro/con: Customer service/support from LaCie is usually regarded as terrible.
new pro/con: can read from FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS and XFS formatted drives. Unclear if it is REISERFS3 or REISERS4 that is supported. Unclear if EXT4 will be supported in the future.
new pro/con: CPU is a Marvell 88F5182 "Orion" processor (@ 500 MHz). a 900-1.1ghz processor would have been more suitable; 500mhz is easily bogged down when making parity calculations (RAID5 and RAID6) leading to this product sometimes crashing if it 'is driven too hard.'
new pro/con: supports 1.5tb and 2tb SATA drives
new pro/con: does not support the (extremely excellent for network storage) ZFS file system :(
new pro/con: insufficient ram: only 128mb ram with 4mb flash memory. way way low for for a product in this price category; especially with as cheap as ram is these days.
new pro/con: spare drives / drive trays are available, at an exorbitant price, and only as a drive/tray combo, not tray alone.
new pro/con: not available as a shell, you need to buy the unit with hard drives. The drives LaCie puts in here are definitely not what a knowledgeable person would use. (cheap hitachi's provided at premium cost)
new pro/con: extremely affordable raid6 product with 5 drive bays.

2. updated LaCie 4big/5big Spare Drive - September 13, 2009 at 7:34 pm

new pro/con: does not support the (extremely excellent for network storage) ZFS file system :(
new pro/con: insufficient ram: only 128mb ram with 4mb flash memory. way way low for for a product in this price category.
new pro/con: spare drives / drive trays are available, at an exorbitant price, and only as a drive/tray combo, not tray alone.
new pro/con: not available as a shell, you need to buy the unit with hard drives. The drives LaCie puts in here are definitely not what a knowledgeable person would use. (cheap hitachi's provided at premium cost)
new pro/con: extremely affordable raid6 product with 5 drive bays.

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September 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm

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