On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
If only they had all chosen to use the standard size, flat face on
the drive tray. With some laptops it's impossible to use a drive
that wasn't available as an OEM option - unless you happen to find
a drive of the same make that the OEM face will snap onto* or you
don't mind doing some plastic cutting.
*Which I've found to be very rare because the drive manufacturers
will not simply develop one face to tray attachment design and
stick with it for years. Seems like every new series of drive from
each company has a different design for parts that there's no
reason to change, except to be changing them.
Perhaps solving a problem by reusing an existing drive instead of
buying a new one is seen as a lost sale, which they wish to discourage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Josh
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