CD-ROM enclosures

Just picked up a couple of CD-ROM enclosures from Newegg.com:

SABRENT SBT-ESU52 Aluminum 5.25" USB 2.0 External Enclosure - Retail

Figured I'd buy a CDR while I was at it:
LG Beige 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 2MB Cache E-IDE / ATAPI CD Burner - OEM


I bought the Sabrent because it uses a standard power cord. Too many adapters (wall warts!), know what I mean?

RAM Deals at Newegg.com

N82E16820220078 87.99 Patriot 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SO-DIMM EMC315RIOT1GB Rebate $20

N82E16820146219 $52.99 Mushkin 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM DIMM EMC315MUSH512 Rebate $10

N82E16820145048 69.99 Crucial 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Notebook Memory EMC315SHP1GB
$210.97

I passed on these deals because newegg.com only lets you use one promo code at a time and it would be too much work otherwise.

FatWallet Cash Back Problems

Lately I've been having some cash back problems with my purchases from Newegg.com, namely none of them are coming through. That is troublesome because FatWallet makes it a serious pain to fill out the trouble tickets, requiring you to fill out way more information than should be necessary.

Oh well, hopefully they'll figure it out. If it becomes an issue, I'll switch to Upromise which seems to have better service and faster reporting. However, they don't have click tracking which is somewhat of a pain.

AOpen XC Cube EX761 AMD Socket 754 AMD Athlon 64/Sempron SiS 761GX 2 x 184Pin SiS Mirage 1 Barebone

Just bought one of these from newegg.com:

AOpen XC Cube EX761 AMD Socket 754 AMD Athlon 64/Sempron SiS 761GX 2 x 184Pin SiS Mirage 1 Barebone

Only $99 with free shipping! My plan is to build a low-power NAS device: RAID0 with IDE drives instead of SATA. Supposedly they use less energy. We'll see!

Buying two NAS setups from Newegg

I'm buying the components to build two network attached storage devices from Newegg. The shell is the Thecus 2100, and the drives are Samsung.

The Thecus 2100 is an open box for $250 : N82E16833201005R

and the Samsung 500GB Hard drive for $139: N82E16822152052

and memory upgrades Kingston 512MB for $39: N82E16820141436

I have a Linksys NSLU2, which is an awesome device, but it needs a little more power to be really useful. I'm going to rebuild mine with a 2GB flash drive instead of the 512MB one I'm using currently. That should be much better.