🚀 go-pugleaf

Darin Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> It's extremely scary to hear someone who builds computers talk that
> way.  If an auto salesman said "don't worry about the details, you'll
> probably buy a new car within 5 years anyway", I'd be running away.
> All of the drives I've used, I've used for over 2 years (except the
> ones that died).  And they've all been big enough.  Reliability and
> speed is much more important to me than size (I have 2gigs, with no
> plans on increasing it anytime soon).
> 
You can hang onto an old machine for as long as you like ,all you have
to do is stop buying any new software for it(your old machines too slow 
etc.) and be satisfied with living in the past. 
A 2 gig hard drive might sound roomey now but there will probably come a
day when it won't be large enough to hold the computers opperating
system (ie.100meg drives were once thought of as huge ,now there's not
enough room to fully install Win95 on them)

> Of course, it is computer builders who do all the "memory is cheap,
> disk is cheap" mantra, knowing that it is usually they who end up
> being paid to do the upgrade.
> 

> And a computer builder that implies the two levels of quality are home
> use and military spec is a builder to avoid.  That sort of thinking
> has taken computers out of the high tech world, and turned them into
> low tech low quality appliances.
> 

Most of our customers update their machines every 2 or 3 years (they
like runing the latest games etc) ,we usualy give them the same trade in
on their old system no matter how good it is(old computers all have the
same value to us ,as we throw them out to the rubbish tip) ,so why waste
their money with 'too much gun' for the job.

> (Hmm, if I had scsi, I'd much rather *add* a new smallish drive than
> upgrade an existing one to a larger drive (meaning I have to migrate
> everything over, what a nightmare).  With IDE, you're stuck with only
> 2 drives (unless you want to slave them and screw up performance), so
> the temptation is to make them larger.  But that's just me)
> 
Salve them,screw up performance? ,not if you know what your doing ,IDE
has a max of 8 drives.

Have you ever tried running win95 on a system with a lot of small hard
drives? ,after a while there isn't enough room on the drive you
installed windows on to hold all the components that other programs add
to it during their installs ,gets to be a real pain in the neck.
> >

Alecto.