Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Azayzel
BTW I helped a friend install a new HDD in their system and the friggin *extra* drive bays were too far for a normal IDE cable to reach. Hello engineers, is anybody home?
|
What a relief to hear someone else has run into the same sort of stupid problem!
But a good night's sleep has given me the expected perspective, and here's the real problem... I should never have spent so much time on it. When it was clear it wasn't easy, I should have simply given up in the beginning and found a product better suited to my needs. I would have been a lot less frustrated if I hadn't become so committed to making this particular PC work.
My conclusion - the cable arrangement inside the PC is bad, and clearly HP doesn't care about making expansion easy on their desktops, so I guess HP is a bad fit for me. I will shop for another brand in the future. Others may find that HP is a good fit, especially if they buy a unit with everything they need already installed in it.
Time to move on. Besides, there is a really great looking UMPC (the Q1 Ultra) due out this month, so a happy purchase from Samsung will most certainly wipe out any bad memories of this frustrating mistake.
Now... where did I put that rock solid e-ink device that never lets me down?!