Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:06:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Possible Solution for ATA Mess... |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
>From: "Andre Hedrick" <andre@linux-ide.org> >> The bitch and scream over a $0.01 per drive addition. >> >> $0.01 * 1.5e7 * number of models per year == MILLIONS per company. > >My hardware guy says $0.02 for a jumper and $0.04 for a shunt = >$0.06. > >$0.06 * 1.5e7 * 30 models per year = $27,000,000 per year > >Let's say that it costs $100 to manufacture a hard drive, parts and >labour and design etc, but not including that extra jumper. > >$100 * 1.5e7 * 30 models per year = $45,000,000,000 per year > >The fact remains that it is an insignificant cost in the manufacture >of the hardware. Extremely insignificant. 0.06% by my estimates, >and I think I was conservative with the cost of manufacturing a >hard drive.
This logic is just plain totally completely rediculous. So each hard disk produced would cost $0.06 *CENTS* more if they included a jumper? OH NO! That would cost them 45 BILLION dollars a year to include?
Know what I say about that? *bullshit* - not to you, but to the idea that it costs money.
Push the $0.06 cents per drive on to the consumer. Shit, crank it up to $1.00. I'll pay an extra dollar on my $200 hard disk to get the jumper. *ANYONE* would gladly pay the 6 cents, that is for sure. So, instead of spending 45 billion dollars on jumpers, they could easily double that, and MAKE 45billion dollars. Bring that up to a dollar, and they could retire early.
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