[BC] Radio stations that buy new equipment...

[Tom]

Buy tower, MB, CPU, memory, and drives, and roll your own.  You'd be 
surprised at the markups for assembled systems - whether WalMart or BE.
And generally, you WILL wind up with the same drives on that 
purpose-built BE machine as the one you bought at WallyWorld... and 
probably the same CPU and memory, as well.

Personal experience with various drives - Seagate / Maxtor drives 
will outlast WD; I've had four WD drives, all bought new, DIE horrid 
deaths - overheating, mostly.  The Seagate drives I bought to replace 
them have outlasted the WD drives by a factor of five, and still 
going strong.
Same size, different builders - one of the Seagate drives is being 
accessed almost continuously for MOHD playback; the other one not 
quite so often (commercials, PSAs, IDs, plus the OS and some support 
programs); exactly the same service as the WD drives were in, only 
lasting LOTS longer!

The two Maxtor drives are in THIS machine; one is the backup for the 
MOHD drive, and the other one is the C:\ drive, with LOTS of apps on it!

So - Quality is where you find it - just because it has a $10k price 
tag doesn't automatically mean it's better than the one with the $1k 
price tag... sometimes it's worse.

Tom S.

SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>Dana wrote:
>
>>That el cheapo E machine uses the SAME hard drive, power supply, motherboard
>>and RAM as a premium machine. Hstory has shown emachines to be as reliable as
>>any other.
>
>
>Well, your luck with Walmart-quality computers is a lot different 
>than mine.  I never seem to get more than a year or so out of one 
>before some major component dies.  There is a difference.