Did someone pull a fast one on me?

T bone wrote:
Why would a Dell computer have a Seagate hard drive in it..I did not put it there..!!!

Same reason DELL doesn't make the motherboard, graphics card, or memory. They assemble the components based on their specs. Could be from any manufacture they contract with.

AsheGuy wrote:
It's interesting that Hitachi shows up best in the hard drive reliability tests cited in a post below. Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive business back in 2002. IBM invented the hard drive.

It's also interesting that the disk drive line that Hitachi bought from IBM, DeskStar, was once referred to as DeathStar due to reliability issues.

It's interesting that Hitachi shows up best in the hard drive reliability tests cited in a post below. Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive business back in 2002. IBM invented the hard drive.

T bone wrote:
Why would a Dell computer have a Seagate hard drive in it..I did not put it there..!!!

Maybe the Tooth Fairy did it. :B

Thanks.. I had it worked on a while back and wasn't sure..it still didn't work well.I at least had the pleasure of tossing it out onto the concrete driveway,made me feel a little better..Then I stole the fans out of it for future use!!!

I toured the Dell plant near Austin a few years back. They don't actually build computers. They assemble them with whichever parts they get. They don't keep extra parts on hand. Everything is delivered daily for the builds computers they are working on. They have several vendors and go with the one that can get the parts to them cheapest and quickest. When my school was deployed with Dell computers, we learned that, although they were the same model units, they were assembled with different components. Just depended on when the assembly took place, and which vendor supplied the part.

Seagate would not be my first choice for hard drives. The only drives, more than one, I've ever had fail have been Seagates. I've not bought any in a long time. Western Digital or Samsung are my choices.

Delphi wrote:

Seagate is a top-tier hard drive brand. Great quality. There's no reason for you to worry.

Google for 'hard drive quality'.:)

Dell uses multiple suppliers for the consumer machines. If you go to Dell.com and enter your unit number to see the software patch upgrades for your unit you can then tell based upon the drivers that are available, which drives are standard for your system.

coolmom42 wrote:
Same reason it has either an Intel or Athlon CPU, some other brand of graphics card, & some other brand of DVD drive. Dell doesn't make all these components, no computer mfr does.

Currently, I think you are right.

HP's used to come with HP drives, then the fired chairman of HP reduced the companies value by a couple order of magnitude (and sold off the the parts with the highest profit margins)