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26 February 2020
Lives up to Expectations
I bought this RAM to complement my existing 8 GB of DDR3 (G. Skill Ripjaws X, 2x 4 GB), as this RAM had the same 9-9-9-24 timings, and the low-profile nature of it meant it would fit more easily below my CPU fan than another 8 GB of the G. Skill.
So far, it has been excellent. I'm still able to run the 9-9-9-24 XMP profile across the two different brands of memory, it fit below the CPU fan, and it's been running stable for several weeks now. It'll most likely let me get another year out of my Sandy Bridge system, and at less than $30 second-hand, that's a bargain.
The photo illustrates the height difference between the G. Skill (red) and Corsair (black) DIMMs.
06 April 2017
Not Dell-New, But Plenty Good for Price
I've bought two 9-cell batteries from longmall2012 for my Inspiron 1520, one in summer 2015, and the second in spring 2017. Overall, I'm pretty happy with them. This is a laptop that came out in the summer of 2007 - nearly 10 years ago - and Dell no longer sells official batteries for it, and likely hasn't for several years. So the question is not whether it's better than Dell's batteries (though I'll cover that), but whether it's a good value and reliable.
First, the specifics. Both batteries I've bought are manufactured by Samsung SDI, with a designed capacity of 86.58 Whr. The newer one has a current capacity of 68.332 Whr, while the older is currently around 67 Whr. Dell's 9-cell was 85 WHr. This tells two things - expect roughly 80% of the battery life of what Dell's original 9-cells provided, and that the "new" battery, while unused, likely was not actually manufactured particularly recently, but was built a few years ago and has been waiting for a buyer since then. While not as good as one just manufactured, for a 10-year-old laptop, the pickings are likely slim.
So what's this all add up to? With a single battery, I get somewhere in the 2-3 hours of battery life range depending on CPU use, screen brightness, and whether WiFi is enabled. I could likely get 3.5 with all three of those minimized, but usually I am using at least one beyond the minimum for part of that time. Two batteries gives 4 - 6 hours of use away from the mains, potentially approaching 7 in a particularly conservative use case. And all for considerably less than a Dell battery ever sold for. So the value is still pretty good.
Reliability-wise, I can't really complain. The battery-charging light always stays on when the AC is connected as it seems to think it's always at 99.9% instead of 100%, but that's pretty minor. The only times the battery hasn't successfully provided sufficient current is when I've been running the CPU at considerably higher clockspeeds than Dell ever sold for this laptop, and this is really a case of exceeding supported specifications (and specifications that will increase power demands). So it's been pretty great - I went from 45 minutes on my second battery, to being able to take the laptop out for several hours again.
I've been running the battery on a laptop with a 2.8 GHz Core 2 Extreme X7900 (versus the max 2.2 GHz Dell sold the laptop with), traditional hard drive, and 8600M GT GPU. You may get somewhat better battery life with a slower CPU, SSD, or less powerful/integrated graphics card.
I bought the second battery due to being satisfied with the first but wanting somewhat better time away from AC for awhile, and would recommend this battery.
19 July 2020
Fluent at communicating with floppy drives
I'd been wishing there were a product like this off and on for a few years, so I could add an internal floppy drive to my computer via one of its USB headers.
Enter this board. I had a Sony internal floppy drive sitting around that hadn't been used since last century. It was easy to connect it to this board, and connect the USB connector on the board to the StarTech USBMBADAPT USB header-to-USB-A adapter I had already bought. And it works! I've verified that I can transfer files back and forth via floppy disk between my Core i5 desktop, and my Pentium MMX laptop that has an internal floppy drive.
I'd recommend this board if you have an old internal floppy drive by a good manufacturer, and a free 5.25" bay on your desktop.