I hate the computer business..

[theducks]

Everything is so cheap, buggy and commoditised, or insanely expensive.

Case in point: I want a bunch of 400GB USB2 or Firewire hard drives. Now, I could pay $628 (+shipping) for one from Zytech. Or, I could buy a drive for $357 and an enclosure for $99. But would it work? It might. But you can never trust it. The vendor of the case will blame the drive, and the vendor of the drive will (rightly) blame the vendor of the enclosure.

I wish I could just buy PC components and have them act as expected.

Comments

[coxymla.livejournal.com]

Any reason you want 400 GB drives specifically, especially if you're getting multiple units anyway? 320 GB drives are just $200 and much better value for money overall...

[coxymla.livejournal.com]

Expanding on this a bit, I find it odd that I'm a Mac guy willing to pay a hefty premium on hardware that'll do less for my purposes, but as soon as I get that tower everything else is cobbled together as cheaply as possible. Case in point: Firewire ATA controller mounted in a Power Mac 9500 case with a Power Mac 6100 PSU powering a crappy WD Raptor and a cheap DVD±RW, and the internal RAID that sits in the CPU bay of my G5 the cables of which bow out the side panel a bit.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Nah, 320 would do. The premium on 400's is pretty hefty still.