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- w***a (487)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseExactly as described and packed securely. Top notch seller, thank you very much!
- n***d (21)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseThe ASUS N10J Notebook was well packaged and looks well maintained. John the seller packaged the laptop and accessories really well when I received it. John was also very helpful during pre-bid and answered any queries I had with regards to the laptop. He also seems knowledgeable in the tech side of things. Even till now he still responds to any queries I might have. Great Seller and highly recommended.
- s***m (708)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseExceptional communication, item exactly as described and very well packaged for transit. I’m very happy with this purchase and the item arrived incredibly quick. Thanks so much. A+++
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Reviews (3)
21 May 2021
Great value and performance
I really like this drive. It performs well and is great value. Being an enterprise drive it is not quiet, but I like the good old hard disk sound. The massive MBTF rating says it is built to last.
I'm using it for media storage, some game installs, my Debian /home partition and my Win10 My Docs etc folders and it is doing a great job. It is heaps better than the 5400rpm Seagate 2TB Green drive I replaced it with. Louder yes, but much better performance.
In fact I like it so much that I've ordered another 2TB drive to share files with my WinXP install (it can't see the GPT partition layout needed for this 3TB drive).
26 August 2021
Nice, affordable laptop upgrade
I bought this SSD to upgrade my wife's ThinkPad E450, which was running extremely sluggishly with an old 5400rpm mechanical drive. It is now much more responsive, well worth the $50-odd cost.
21 January 2021
Works really well, although setup can be complicated depending on your wireless security settings
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought this to use with a ZTE H268A NBN modem / router and a desktop with a wired Gigabit ethernet port. Setup to get the RE650 connected to the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz SSIDs broadcast by my router was relatively painless, although I did initially have to disable MAC filtering on the router to get it working.
The process to re-enable MAC address filtering again on the router was fairly painful because there were quite a few unadvertised MAC addresses used by the RE650 that had to be added to my router's white list. The RE650 also modifies the MAC address of wireless devices connected to it (eg a phone), so you will have to add the modified MAC address to the router's whitelist as well as its actual MAC address. So that took a while, and required some networking trouble-shooting skills, but it has been working fine ever since.
The bandwidth and latency between the RE650 and H268A is excellent, and I now have fast and responsive internet on my desktop. I can easily stream an 30GB blu-ray rip from the desktop to my Xbox One, and game streaming from my Xbox One to the desktop is very smooth and responsive. It has been on 24x7 since I set it up and there have not been any stability issues or drop outs.
It feels like a well-made unit and is reasonably sizeable. For instance I have it plugged into the right hand port of a double power point and it does cover the left hand port as well. This has stopped me from adding my switch into the picture so I can connect my printer over the ethernet port as well, but an offsetting adapter will take care of that.