Dale wrote:
> Our company sells about 1000 computers a month and do you
> think the manufacturers would ship them with the CD-rom on the
> secondary and the HD on the Primary controller if they could get
> away with both on the same ? It would save one whole ribbon
> cable. (Given how cheap the manufacturers are this is a big deal to
> them. I mean look at Winmodems and the stupid cheap fans they
> have forced on us over the years, all in the name of saving a few
> pennies).
Since I build computers too, there may be another reason why put harddisk and CD
on same cable: the less cable you use, the clear and better on how is the looking
inside the case. A clear looking inside sometime does help to make customers'
mind.
Jun Qian
PCBUILD's List Owner's:
Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>