RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse

Samium Gromoff
2003-10-27T14:02:55Z

Eric Mudama wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > Item "3" in your list is not practical, because no drive
> > maker allows the same drives that large oem's purchase to be placed in retail.
> > There are obvious reasons, but your position stated for the average joe
> > consumer is flawed.
>
> I don't believe your statement is correct that OEM drives and retail drives
> always differ. They may have slight configuration differences, but
> fundamentally I think they're the same drive with identical or
> near-identical firmware.

If there is somebody you should believe about such stuff, that would be Andre.
(by the way he was a T13 committee member not so long ago)

And, hey, i would have been rather surprised if you have answered otherwise,
given your email address...

cheers, Samium Gromoff