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To: Sam who wrote (7152)	10/1/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: Mark Madden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

My hat is off to Western Digital for their gutsy move. If I used a hard drive for 6 months and had a failure, it would be a terrible inconvenience. My most current data would be lost. If I ever found out that the disk dive company new my drive would fail and did nothing, I would never buy a product from them again. Since Western Digital will replace a bad drive as soon as they discover there is a problem, I prefer them as a manufacturer. I do not know if other manufacturers would would honor their products so strong. Western Digital is credible. I think their honor is even greater because they honor their product in a time when they can least afford it. Mark M.

To: Sam who wrote (7152)	10/1/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Robert Douglas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9256

Sam and all, Maybe the WDC recall will have a silver lining for the industry. Is it possible that the PC makers will rethink their strategy of pitting drive makers against each other based on price? Will reliability sell at a premium now? I can't shed any tears over the PC makers problem with this. They are largely to blame for commoditizing the disk drive. They may try and take their wrath out on WDC, but what do you expect when you are earning more for reselling a product than the manufacturer makes for producing it? In Western's case infinitely more as their profits are zero. ;-) Also, I don't think that WDC's efforts at being responsible will do them one bit of good. This will hurt them. Once again, Dell and their model come out on top. Remarkable!