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.

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[coxymla.livejournal.com]

When it's spinning (even just at idle!) it's the loudest thing in my room, even beating out the G5 with 6 spinning drives and a dual-core CPU / 7800GT.