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To: xcr600 who wrote (25721)	8/19/2005 10:50:52 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

Who's mfg the drives? Gateway puts the cheapest components they can find into its servers and PCs. Whoever wins the bid on that particular batch, gets their hardware installed. There is no consistency of manufacturer from box to box, even in the same batch. You may have two boxes with the same hard drives but different NICs, etc.

To: xcr600 who wrote (25721)	8/19/2005 10:55:19 AM
From: BW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Who's mfg the drives? Well that's a tough one j/k... We've got cd/dvd roms from LG, Lite-On, Mitsumi, Teac, and probably a few others. The current H/Ds were getting are Western Dig, but there's plenty of Maxtors mixed in, oh and IBMs, Fujitsu, Seagates... I guess that's part of GW's problem, however due to our state contract, going with GW is much better than dealing with Dell. All the IT folk I know here praise the GW support and despise Dell's. I'll have to ask around and see who is returning more parts, the GW departments or the Dells. I guess in the long run their both using the same components... Personally I'd never buy either, I just hit up Newegg or somewhere and put my own together.