FCTom
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- First ReviewJanuary 22, 2016
- Last ReviewJuly 6, 2018
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- Average Rating4.9
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Insignia™ - 4' USB Type A-to-USB Type C Charge/Sync Cable
Replace your old cable with this Insignia type-C to type-A USB cable. It fits some of the latest smartphones and tablets so that you can quickly charge them with an appropriate outlet adapter or connect them directly to your laptop or PC. Easy data syncing is assured thanks to the 4-foot cable of this Insignia type-C to type-A USB cable.
Works to charge my phone while I'm in the car.
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: FCTom
from Fort Collins, CO
on July 6, 2018
Charging my phone while in the car was what I purchased the cable for and it does that just fine.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Verified Purchaser:Yes
My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Fury [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [2014]
Nice movie to show off my 4K TV
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: FCTom
from Fort Collins, CO
on July 6, 2018
This movie is extra sharp at 4K reolution. I like the extra features in the movie made me awre they used real tanks and not CGI for the majority of the filming.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Samsung - 9W Fast Charge Wireless Charger - Black
Easily replenish your cell phone with this Samsung 9W Fast Charge Wireless Charger, which works with select Samsung models for wide-ranging compatibility. Overload protection helps defend against excess power.
Works great
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: FCTom
from Fort Collins, CO
on July 6, 2018
It works great and is really nice just being able to lay the phone down and have it charge, Samsun S9. You get a solid blue light to indicate it's charging and a green light once it is at 100% charged. It sure beats having to plus and unplug a cable to charge the phone.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Easily and quickly record up to 100GB of data with this LG BP50NB40 8x external USB 2.0 Blu-ray Disc rewriter that features 6x maximum BD-R and 2x BD-RE write speeds to help you rapidly complete your tasks.
Only one small negative
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: FCTom
from Fort Collins, CO
on June 1, 2018
The drive works great and plays Blu-Ray disk fine with just one of the two USB plus attached to my Dell laptop. I suspect if I were to try and burn a disk I might need to use the second USB connector to provide sufficient power. That leads to my only complaint. MY laptop like many these days only has one USB port per side and the attached cables are too short to allow connecting the disk to multiple ports on my computer without the addition of an extension cable.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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NETGEAR - AC1200 Dual-Band WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter - Black
The NETGEAR AC1200 WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter with high-gain antennas provides 3x faster access than USB 2.0. Wirelessly connect your notebook or desktop computer to an 11ac network for applications such as lag-free, multiple HD streams throughout your home.
Improved speed over my old N adapter
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: FCTom
from Fort Collins, CO
on September 22, 2017
I have a desktop that I use w-i-fi to connect to my home network and have been using an older dual band N adapter. This new adapter greatly improved my network connection speed.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Samsung - 850 EVO 500GB Internal Serial ATA Solid State Drive for Laptops and PC
With TurboWrite technology, this Samsung 850 EVO MZ-75E500B 500GB internal SATA hard drive allows you to quickly update files. The 32-layer 3D VNAND flash memory ensures reliable performance, and AES 256-bit encryption keeps your data private.
Samsung drives are woth the slighlty higer price
Customer Rating
5.0
Samsung makes highly reliable SSD. Some other who make fine USD storage devices are experiencing a high failure rater with their SSD. Don't assume just because someone makes great flash drives that their SSDs will be great.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Hacksaw Ridge [Blu-ray/DVD] [2 Discs] [2016]
Well told story of a little known man
Customer Rating
5.0
I'm a history buff but didn't know about this American hero.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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Samsung - 850 PRO 512GB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive for Laptops
Upgrade your laptop's storage with this Samsung 850 PRO MZ-7KE512BW internal SATA III solid state drive, which offers a generous 512GB capacity for digital data. SED (Self-Encrypting Drive) technology controls access to private information.
Great Product just a couple of things to be aware
Customer Rating
5.0
This is a great SSD. I decided on it because of the 10 year warranty. The things I ran into are one this drive is thinner than the HD in my laptop. It's not much thinner but just enough that it was possible to push it all the way into the HD slot without engaging the connectors. At first I thought it wasn't compatible with my old laptop as the BIOS reported no hard drive. A little searching online found the fix pull the drive back out and adjust it's angle a little bit and make sure you could feel the connectors seat as you pushed the disk back in. The second thing was using the Samsung Magician software I found I had some reliability issues running optimized for speed on my nine year old Dell Latitude D820. Using the setup for maximum reliability the disk has been rock solid. I first cloned my Windows 7 HD to the new disk then did an upgrade to Windows 10. While the Samsung Magician software reported it was the latest version a newer version was available at their web site that fully supports Windows 10. Even with my old laptop that can't fully utilize all the performance features of this SSD it makes booting/shutting down and opening apps very fast. I have an i7 desktop with 12GB of RAM I use for things I need processor performance like photo editing but for general web browsing and simple word processing/spreadsheet work it's nice to keep the old laptop running sitting in an easy chair in the living room. If I end up replacing the laptop any time in the near future I can put my old HD back into the laptop and use this SSD to swap out a less expensive drive option in the new laptop.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0391168167
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NETGEAR - AC1200 Dual-Band WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter - Black
The NETGEAR AC1200 WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter with high-gain antennas provides 3x faster access than USB 2.0. Wirelessly connect your notebook or desktop computer to an 11ac network for applications such as lag-free, multiple HD streams throughout your home.
Will this connect to my wireless AC 5ghz bandwidth connection? I have a new router (nighthawk ac 1900) that offers a 2.4 and 5 ghz. My current wifi card does not connect or pickup the 5ghx band so it is going to waste.
It most likely would work. That said unless your existing adapter isn't an AC one in most cases you won't notice any real difference between the 2.4 and 5ghz channels. I have both on my home network sometimes the 2.4 actually gives me a stronger faster connection than the 5. If you existing single channel adapter is n or slower then by all means give this one a try.
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NETGEAR - AC1200 Dual-Band WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter - Black
The NETGEAR AC1200 WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter with high-gain antennas provides 3x faster access than USB 2.0. Wirelessly connect your notebook or desktop computer to an 11ac network for applications such as lag-free, multiple HD streams throughout your home.
Will this allow wireless internet connection to my blue Ray player Sony BDP-S185?
Most likely not. Your device needs to have a driver tow work with this device and I doubt the ability to use this device is built into your player. What I did for one of my players was buy a Wi-Fi bridge and then use a short network cable to connect to the bridge. I'm not sure if Best Buy currently stocks any bridges, sometimes referred to as a range extender. You have will make sure the device has a wired network port and that your player has a jack to connect to a wired network. D-Link currently makes an AC1750 range extender that looks like it would work likely work for you. I just found an online manual for your player and see it does have a wired LAN port so my suggestion should work for you. in my case it was an older Samsun player and they wanted a rather high price for their Wi-Fi adapter at the time I spent less than a third of what they wanted to implement the bridge option. I just looked and Best Buy offers a number of D-Link range extenders that along with a network cable should work for your needs. From the manual for your player it looks like it's just a 100mb network port so there would be no real advantage of getting an AC range extender over an N one. That is unless you have more devices you want to connect with it. If you have a smart TV that you would also like to connect and are facing the same issues then add an inexpensive switch to the range extender(bridge). I'm a systems administrator for me setting everything up was easy. Some people might find it a challenge others will find it easy.
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Samsung - 850 PRO 512GB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive for Laptops
Upgrade your laptop's storage with this Samsung 850 PRO MZ-7KE512BW internal SATA III solid state drive, which offers a generous 512GB capacity for digital data. SED (Self-Encrypting Drive) technology controls access to private information.
can this be installed in a toshiba satellite m645-s4070?
can this be installed in a toshiba satellite m645-s4070?
While I can't say with 100% certainty as I don't have your model laptop to look at when I pull up a speech sheet at Toshiba's web site I see no reason it shouldn't work. I suggest you go there and to the online how to videos on how to replace a hard drive. You may want to invest in a drive cloning kit that comes with a USB adapter and software to clone your existing HD to the new SSD.
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WD - My Cloud 3TB External Hard Drive (NAS) - White
This 3TB WD My Cloud external network-attached storage device's Gigabit Ethernet interface allows connection to your existing network, so you can easily store and access files with compatible PC, Mac, mobile phones and tablets from anywhere in your home.
Windows 2012R2 Servers
Will this work with a Windows 2012 R2 server?
There is no reason it won't work with the server OS. The question is will your hardware support it? The answer is most likely yes but without know the derails of your hardware no one can give a definite answer.
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