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C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

Personally, I am sick and tired of the United States government meddling more and more in our lives.  The movie and music industry is using our elected officials like puppets (muppets) and we are sitting idly by and letting it happen.  Well, I signed the petition, and my voice will be heard next election.  G.R.I.P. – Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians.  If we really want to make changes, we have to get those that pander to big business out of office and let them know that we have the power to do it.  After all, they are there to represent Read More…

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The rear end of the unit is nothing special; just your standard connections: the SATA connections, power connections, a power switch, an 80mm cooling fan and some jumpers for HDD activity.  Luckily, the included 80mm fan does an adequate job of cooling your drives while producing little to no noise at all. The BPU-340SATA and the BPU-340SAS differ in that the 340SATA can use a couple of standard 4 pin molex connectors instead of only serial ATA power connectors.  This allows some users with older power supplies to take advantage of these devices without using adapters.

The backplane produced by iStarUSA allows me to install 4 drives, using only 3 5.25" bays, and having easy access to them. Outside of the useless locking system and the power buttons this unit is nice.  After my initial experience with the broken latching mechanism I wanted to use the unit for a while before publishing this article.  I can say with confidence that there have been no issues with the unit since the initial incident.  For your confidence, I removed the drives twice a day to see if there were any other dependability issues.

In my experiences with iStarUSA, they live up to their word.  A friend of mine purchased a tower chassis from them based on one of our reviews and had an issue with the hinge on the front bezzel; they shipped him a new hinge without any struggles.  That to me is worth its weight in gold.  Would I buy one? Absolutely... not just for the product, but because iStarUSA stands behind their products.

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Joe DiFiglia has written 195 Articles at C.O.D.


In early 2000 I became increasingly frustrated with hardware review sites praising less than satisfactory products. The saying: “if you want something done right, do it yourself” applies here. I wasn’t satisfied, so I did it myself; and here we are years later.