Category: Reviews

It doesn’t work.

Okay, that’s a lit­tle bit un­fair; it’s prob­a­bly more ac­cu­rate to say that it doesn’t work as ex­pect­ed. The Tu­niq Sanc­tum hard drive en­clo­sure is a 5.25” bay de­vice that holds a 3.5” (or small­er, I sup­pose) hard drive, and pur­port­ed­ly not on­ly re­duces the noise out­put of the drive but al­so helps to keep it cool. This de­vice, un­for­tu­nate­ly, ex­cels at one aspect of its claimed pur­pose and fails at the other. While it does in­deed keep noise levels down very ac­cept­ably, the Tu­niq Sanc­tum en­clo­sure, due to the lack of air­flow in­side the de­vice, fails to cool the hard drive ad­e­quate­ly. In fact, leav­ing the hard drive in­side the en­clo­sure will prob­a­bly de­crease the hard drive’s life­time due to the 60+ de­grees Cel­sius tem­per­a­tures some­times ex­pe­ri­enced in­side the de­vice. Read more…

I de­cid­ed to write this re­view to share my own ex­pe­ri­ence of buy­ing a track­ball mouse: I had been com­par­ing be­tween what are ba­si­cal­ly the two most full-fea­tured track­balls on the mar­ket to­day, the Log­itech Cord­less Op­ti­cal Track­Man and the Kens­ing­ton Ex­pert Mouse 7.0. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, track­balls are not very pop­u­lar among com­put­er users to­day, and so I had a very hard time find­ing an Ex­pert Mouse to try out for my own. In the end, one of my friends owned the Log­itech track­ball and a dif­fer­ent (non-op­ti­cal) Kens­ing­ton track­ball pro­duct, and I end­ed up buy­ing the Ex­pert Mouse. To sum up this en­tire re­view, I am ex­treme­ly hap­py with my pur­chase; read on for my rea­sons.

Kens­ing­ton Ex­pert Mouse 7.0