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Technology Stocks : Western Digital (WDC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (8433)	1/14/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: phoenix	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11057

Someone explain this to me. I just upgraded on of my PC's starting with the motherboard. In the middle of the installation the old Maxtor hard drive decided to fail. Murphy's law. So I get all kinds of errors going on that take me a day to figure that the problem with the new start up isn't the new board, or software, or incompatible cards, or peripheals, it's the stupid hard drive. So I go out and buy a WD, slap it in, and problems all solved. Take the Maxtor and throw it off a bridge. Question is, why will people go out and buy a $1000 computer and not even care what hard drive is installed? I can understand people not caring about other components in the PC, but when the hard drive fails, you lose stuff. Sometimes stuff you spent a good deal of time on. People understand this. Yet they will buy a PC with a "it works good now" attitude. I'm confused. Roger