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In article <2330@infmx.UUCP> cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi) writes:

>Does this approach not seem just a trace short-sighted?
>Every hard-disk posting seems to assume that price is the most important
>attribute of a drive.  Price is to be considered before anything else.
>I think that is very foolish!  Steve, how do you value your time, when

>There may be exceptions, but in a market as competitive as that for
>hard disks, a higher price will reflect a higher quality.  The *proper*
>question to ask is, "What is the *most*reliable* 20-40 Meg disk my
>friend can buy?"  Almost certainly the price increment will be in the
>small hundreds, *easily* justified in savings of time and peace of mind.


Actually, the proper question is "what drive provides the most
appropriate price/reliability ratio for my situation."  If you're a
programmer whose livlihood depends on the reliability of your hard
drive, then reliability would be *the* paramount consideration.  For
a homeowner with a mortgage, a spouse who is pretty tired of sinking
"just a little more money" into the never-ending black hole in the
study (OK, so it's really gray or platinum....), or a college
student who makes $5000 a year, price may very well be *the* 
paramount consideration.  Many people fall somewhere between, and
try to balance the two.  Hell, I would have loved to get a Mercedes
Benz, but I just couldn't make it.  But I *could* afford this nice
little Toyota over here....
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