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

[Dana Puopolo]

You can also buy a "barebones" machine from Global computer or 3b tech. They
give you a case, motherboard and CPU and you add the rest. Also tyr
www.pricewatch.com

-D


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!