Hp Laserjet P3015dn Printer Black Silver

HP LaserJet P3015dn Printer

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Terrible printer
By JanChuck
Do not buy this printer. I read other reviews online that indicated there were problems with a phantom “jam in tray 2″ error message but I didn’t worry about it since I have never had any problems with HP printers in the past. How wrong I was. The printer worked fine for 2 weeks and then I started getting the same errors. I have spent days (not hours) on the phone and chatting online with technical support and they cannot fix the problem. Not only that – no one is in the US! For this printer, support is in Costa Rica – I find it very difficult to understand them. To discuss problem resolution – it’s the Phillipines. The only ones in the US are the sales people. I’m now printing using Tray 1 and manually feeding in the paper. I’m going to try to return the printer and will start over. Save yourself the grief and buy something else.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
HP has gone down hill
By steve
A mountain of issues plagued us during out first week with this printer before we ultimately sent it packing back to the distributor. Set-up appeared easy and our first print job came after 3 minutes of having the printer on hand. That was the first and last time that the printer decided to print.
We spent a total of 6+ hours between phone conversations and emails with HP after trying to figure out the issue. The printer refused to connect to any workstation we had available, always only printing the first job. It was a mess and a waste of both time and money.
We opted for a different brand entirely. Not a single problem and couldn’t be happier without having to deal with unnecessary technical issues that can’t be fixed by the very people that make and sell the darned thing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Excelent Printer
By Larry Thompson
I have bought 2 of these printers for my company and am getting ready to buy a third. I have had no problems with these printers in the last 8 months. They are quick, easy to set up on the network (Active Director with mostly Windows 7 x64 clients). I can’t find fault with this printer. I highly recomend it.

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Cat5e Rj45 Inline Keystone Coupler White

This insert works outstanding to add a CAT-5 connection into any room of the house / office. This insert works with any of our keystone wall plates or patch panels.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The right part at the right price
By K. Walker
I checked around for these connecters and a lot of places don’t carry them. Had found that I could get Cat5e cables (with ends) cheaper than I could a spool of cable since I only need a hundred feet or so. These allowed me to run the cable through the walls, connect it onto the back side of the plate, and have a nice finished plate/connector on the room-side to which I could connect the final run to my PCs. Their total delivered price was good, received shipment quickly, and it was adequately protected in shipment.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Worked great
By Fred M
I used these when I refinished my basement. Wanted something quick and easy where I could use existing wires and not have to cut off the ends and punch them down. Before buying I was worried they might degrade my connection quality and speed. They did no such thing. They work great. Quick and easy connection (they firmly mounted with a click into place) and my home network (8 computers) is back up and rocking with minimal installation work.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I’d buy these again!
By JerryJJ
These are much easier to use than the punch down style jacks. Snap it in, plug in the cable. You’re done.

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Ocz 120 Gb Vertex 3 Sata Iii 6 0 Gb S

As the third generation of the legendary VertexSeries,OCZ Vertex3 Solid-state Drives are designed and built to unleash the full potential of the 6Gbps SATA3 interface. The OCZVertex3 pushes the limits in both sequential and random info transfer rates, significantly bettering your gaming, multimedia, and overall computing experience over traditionalisti mechanical hard drives. In addition to maximized productivity, a Vertex3 upgrade makes a hard drive- equipped notebook more portable than ever with superior durability and scaled down power consumption. Using the latest breakthrough controller and flash technology, Vertex3 SSDs work in perfective concordance with next generation platforms and operating schemes to deliver the industry’s best storage solution.

OCZ Vertex 3 Solid State Drives unleash the performance potential of the SATA 6Gbps interface, leading the speed revolution in this next-generation solution. As the original SSD to feature the latest Sandforce controller design, OCZ designed the Vertex 3 to push the limits in both sequential and random read/write rates to blaze past the contest when each MB/s matters. With unbelievable 4k file writes up to 85,000 IOPS, these latest drives take productivity, gaming, and multimedia apps to the next level to work in perfective symmetry with the latest passionate platforms.

Take productivity, gaming, and multimedia apps to the next level

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57 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Superb primary or secondary storage
By Chris Angelo
I purchased the Vertex 3 specifically for gaming so this will the focus of my review. I’ve owned all three generations of Vertex drives and I’m most pleased with this drive. That pleasure comes from the capacity and speed of the Vertex 3.

The Vertex 3 drive itself is a 2.5″ form factor and comes with a 3.5″ adapter this time around. Great for those desktop installs, however you will still need to purchase a SATA cable to connect it. To get the most out of this drive, you’ll need a SATA III (6GB) port since the blazzing speed of this drive will max out a SATA II connection.

The drive currently resides in my sandy bridge desktop system as a secondary storage location for all my steam games and Starcraft 2. Along side a Vertex 2 60 gig that is the primary OS disk, the formated capacity of 223GB provides plenty of space for most of the titles that I actively play. It was a bit of a struggle to fit my steam folder on the Vertex 3 as it is quite easy to accumulate numerous titles via steam. With a much higher capacity traditional hard disk, you can keep most all of your titles available locally, but sadly this isn’t the case with a drive of this capacity. It’s the price you pay for having such blistering fast speed.

You can read a number of reviews stating the theoretical and real world tests illustrating the Vertex 3′s speed, but I was mainly concerned with the user experience improvement gained from having one in my system. Copying my 160 gig steam folder was quite fast, maxing out the read transfer rate of my magnetic hard disk at about 75-80 MB per second. After the copy, I proceeded to launch Portal 2 which I had been playing the night before. If you haven’t played the game, there are many level transitions that happen between chambers (or in my case deaths). The load times on my traditional magnetic hard drive were around 15-20 seconds. On the Vertex 3, the loads were shortened by 10 to 15 seconds. It was quite a difference that definitely improved my user experience as I was spending more time playing instead of staring at a progress bar.

Playing starcraft 2, I found the improvement to be much more subtle as the game files were previously on my Vertex 1. The menus seemed a bit more responsive, but it wasn’t as stark a contrast moving from the magnetic drive. World of Warcraft ran slightly faster as well, shaving a couple of seconds loading into major cities or instances. Heroes of Newerth didn’t seem to be affected that much, but then again the install for the game is only ~500MB.

I plan on installing this drive in my new gaming desktop replacement notebook later on in the year as a primary OS/Program drive. I’m sure I will appreciate the larger capacity when trying to jam the OS, productivity apps, and games all on a single drive.

My only current gripe with the Vertex 3 is the high cost. While I would love to have a second one to replace my Vertex 1 and 2, the $500+ price tag doesn’t justify the speed increase I would gain over the older drives. At nearly $2 per GB, it is quite the barrier to owning multiple Vertex 3 drives at this capacity.

I would like to note that this is an enthusiast item since the manufacturer (OCZ) is consistently improving the firmware for their products. From past experience with the Vertex 1 and 2, most of the updates are minor bug fixes, but there are some revisions that add performance gains as well. Updating the firmware has come a long way as a short time. Previously, it wasn’t easy to flash a drive that had an OS on it while running the OS. Boot disks were needed and constantly needed to be rebuilt as new firmware came out. OCZ’s new toolbox is much better now, but updating firmware still isn’t for the novice user or someone that expects to plug the drive in and never worry about it again.

Overall, I love my new SSD. It allows me to accomplish most tasks on my system with less frustration induced by wait times and unresponsiveness. Just be sure to plan your program installations accordingly and have the appropriate hardware to get the most out of your purchase.

Update: April 2012
As of July 2011, OCZ has updated the firmware to 2.15 to correct the stability issues plaguing the Sandforce 2281 controller. I have been running the firmware since then both on a Agility 3 as my primary OS drive and on the vertex 3 containing the majority of my games. I have yet to encounter stuttering or stability problem that I experienced on the previous revisions for the 6+ months I’ve been running it. Subjectively, the speed is the same as when I secured erased both drives to reinstall Windows 7.

OCZ has since released the Vertex 4 drives based on the Everest 2 controller. If you write a lot of incompressable data to your SSD (such as videos), the Vertex 4 is a better choice. If price and a more aggressive garbage collection (for non TRIM OSes such as OSX) are more important, the Vertex 3 is still a great buy.

107 of 126 people found the following review helpful.
This drive model has a hardware defect
By Ian Montgomerie
This drive is built with a SandForce 2281 chip which has a hardware bug. For many users, myself included, this will randomly cause your computer to crash with the blue screen of death. For me, it used to happen every few weeks now it happens every few days. When this problem happens the hard drive will seem to disappear from your computer until you power it off and on again (reset does nothing, because you have to actually cut power to the SandForce 2281 in the drive).

Not everyone sees the bug – it looks like the exact configuration of some computers triggers it much more easily. For the technically minded, each system generates different access patterns to the hard drive and only some patterns will trigger the bug.

Corsair also used this chip in their products and encountered the exact same problem. They issued a recall back in June. The popular AnandTech hardware review site has reproduced this problem and a description of it appears on the first page of their latest review of drives using the SandForce 2281 chip. SandForce has offered to fly in engineers if AnandTech can figure out how to reproduce it more quickly.

Unlike Corsair, OCZ simply lied to all their customers, claiming their issue had nothing to do with the SandForce issue that prompted Corsair to issue a recall, and can be fixed in firmware. Note that “their” firmware is just a renamed version of the SandForce firmware, because the chip manufacturer is the one who writes the firmware controlling the chip. However, after months of firmware updates the problem still occurs.

I haven’t even applied the updates personally, I’m just going by the word of all the other people who say they’ve made no difference. This is because the firmware update process is obscene. They do NOT provide an update program that works from a CD or flash drive. This means that you have to remove the drive from your computer, install it in another Windows PC, and update it from that PC. Given the large number of firmware updates, that’s a lot of times to ask a friend to borrow the inside of their computer.

It gets worse. At least some of the firmware updates are “destructive”, meaning they erase all data on the drive. So you have to reinstall everything, or be savvy enough to make a disk image backup of your hard disk and then restore it after updating.

The SandForce 2281 problems aren’t the fault of the companies selling the drives, although SandForce is a fairly modestly sized startup and they obviously can’t afford to test their chips thoroughly enough. It’s probably possible to fix the chip and manufacture updated versions within a couple of months, but there is zero public indication that SandForce has fixed the error.

In the future I will avoid all products using SandForce chips unless they’ve been in the market for many months without reported problems, because they have demonstrated they don’t have the resources to properly verify and validate their products and address post-silicon bugs. It’s not like this is the only bug found with their chip or drivers, but the others are small in comparison.

OCZ, on the other hand… I will never buy another OCZ product. Their “support” actively lies to customers to avoid doing a recall like their competition. They string everyone along with the promise that the next firmware update will fix it, really, despite that promise always turning out wrong. (Note: I have a little technical knowledge in this area, and suspect that if they could work around this bug in firmware it would probably involve slowing down the drive quite a bit, which would be incredibly unpopular with users who haven’t encountered the bug).

I was *amazed* that a hard disk manufacturer doesn’t offer a bootable update CD to update firmware without putting the drive in another machine. That is just nuts. In many years using many computers, I have never had to do that before.

I’m not going through firmware update hell. I am buying another SSD. This expensive choice will allow me to install it in my system and seamlessly transfer my files to the new drive. After that I will wait for a fix for the OCZ drive, and if one comes I will apply it or RMA it and give it to a friend or sell it for a modest amount.

SandForce 2281 based drives are unfortunately the fastest out there, but I am now buying the latest Intel drive (the 510) based on a Marvell chip. It is maybe 10-20% slower in benchmarks (via AnandTech), but Intel has a reputation for rock solid drives and they work to maintain it. They have a three year warranty on drives and have recently upgraded a smaller drive (the 320) to five years. A French reseller recently revealed that SSDs are returned to them at a 2-3% rate, except for Intel SSDs which are returned at about a 0.6% rate. The Crucial m4 is also based on the same Marvell chip used by the latest Intel drives. It benchmarks faster than the Intel drive, but Crucial doesn’t have the 0.6% return rate. It’s still competitive with the OCZ with much lower risk.

Oh, another annoyance: the drive’s 3.5″ mounting bracket lacked some of the standard screw holes that my case happens to require, and wouldn’t fit into a 3.5 to 5.25 inch adapter I bought either. I had to buy a special 3.5″ adapter and put that in the 5.25″ adapter.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
WOOOOW, this drive is STUPID fast
By David H. Kegley
I have a 2011 macbook pro 15″. This laptop has the 6GB SATA III interface that works great with this drive. I just got the drive today immediately installed it. I have an OWC adapter on the way so I can put my old 750GB drive where the superdrive goes.

I installed OSX, updated, and then installed office 2011 and let it sync up my 400GB exchange mailbox. Then then testing began.

#%^^&$%& this drive is fast! For grins, I configured ALL office apps, safari, firefox all to open on startup. the machine boots in under 30 seconds and all of those apps are loaded before the desktop even appears!

What a great buy this drive was, and very easy to install!

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