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May 05, 2018
Quality in a robust package
Any technician needs this in their tool-kit - in fact, it can replace most of their toolkit, as it contains all the most common tips for screws found in modern laptops and smartphones. The tips are hardened without being brittle and won't snap or knurl like other budget multi-tip driver sets.
The magnetic backing of the tip tray makes storage and quick access easy and painless, the driver handle's tri-side grip and twirl knob ensure a good grip for stubborn screws and easy insertion and tightening.
The push-pop lock of the tray in the aluminium sleeve is a nice touch.
Jul 05, 2018
Unsuitable for breathing new life into old laptops
2 of 2 found this helpful This case converter might look just right for sliding a modest mSATA SSD into an old but still working laptop to give it a boost, and the price is definitely nice, but there's a few glaring design issues with it that makes it unsuitable.
- The plastic shell-cover that fastens to the adaptor board is too thick. Most laptops have been designed to snugly hold a 9mm thick, 65mm (2.5in) wide hard drive so it doesn't move around. The shell is 9.6mm thick (or tall) which means it won't fit the hole it's meant to go into. Four of the five laptops I tried it on, wouldn't accept it. Look at my first photo: I placed the adaptor and a regular HDD side by side and placed a steel rule over them both, and it rests on the adaptor, leaving a gap above the HDD.
- Use it without the plastic shell, you say? That's a no-go as well - the screw-holes that affix it to a tray or mount are only on the plastic shell. They are also un-threaded, so you have to use self-tapping screws ... which are not provided. To make matters worse, the 44-pin header on the adaptor is mounted too high (about 1.3mm too high) so even if you did slide the shell-less board into your laptop's drive-holes, the socket is too low for the adaptor, and you can't plug it in. I pushed the HDD and the adaptor pins-together to take the second and third photos, where you can see the adaptor's silver pins sit higher than the HDD's gold-plated pins.
- The third reason why these are cheap is the JMicron JM20330 bridge chip. Not only does it reduce the SSD's speed to marginally better than a HDD, it does not allow for TRIM, the mechanism SSDs rely one to maintain health. Because one cannot use TRIM with it, you have to leave 30% (three-zero percent) of the SSD as unallocated space instead.
Thankfully, these are not the only type of small-SSD-to-44-pin adaptor on the market, although the majority of them make use of the same JM20330 chip. The best type (I won't mention brands, but they're not hard to track down) uses a Marvell bridge chip that not only allows TRIM, and lets the SSD operate at its potential, the construction is markedly superior, with a metal surround frame and brace, and all the screws and such-like you'd need for a successful installation.
If you have a desktop machine, or have an old IDE-based external hard drive case lying dormant, then this cheap adaptor can be put to use effectively.
Just not laptops.
Aug 19, 2017
Cherry Goes Cheap
German keyboard manufacturer Cherry are well known for producing keyboards and keyswitches of extremely high quality, and currently dominate the market for "mechanical" action keyswitches much loved by programmers and gamers both. Even their non-mechanical keyboards that utilise the laptop-style scissor-leaf and membrane designs have good reviews. I own two of the latter (Cherry Stream) and one of the former (a Ducky Zero, using Cherry blues) so when I spotted this, I thought it was high time my Mac got to enjoy some sweet Cherry goodness.
Unfortunately, the Cherry INITIAL is about as low-budget as you can get and still be called a computer keyboard. Key legends are printed on caps and coated in a varnish, the caps themselves are moulded to a circular shaft which relies on a very tall silicone dimple as the spring and actuator, and the bottom edge of the keycap slaps loudly against the plastic frame all the keys sit in. The result is a long key travel with a lot of wobble and a lot of noise - definitely not enjoyable to type on for any length of time, and definitely not worthy of carrying the Cherry name.