Quality of Technology…
Is it just me or is the quality of the technology (that is the technology readily available to modern consumers) declining, and fast? Western Digital for example—since the age of about 8 I’ve been tweaking, modding, and exploring technological gadgets, but mostly those that involved a PC. Since I can remember I have been using Western Digital for all of my hard disk media storage and as far as I can remember, at that point, Western Digital hardly ever gave me problems. Within the past 6 months I have had 4 new Western Digital Caviar hard drives die on me. What is happening? I’ve heard of bad batches, but this is ridiculous, and to boot I have a friend who has went through a couple rather quickly as well. This frustrates me, as it leads me more and more to believe the WD is turning into another cheap knock off brand. On top of this, ATI’s x1900xt graphics card (which I purchased roughly 2 years ago) is now overheating on me and will not function properly (without artifacts and black screens) without an industrial sized box fan attached to it. A third example, and probably one quite close to home is the Xbox 360. What in the world was Microsoft thinking when they allowed these defective gaming boxes hit the shelves? Is there truly such thing as quality testing or is it more of a game of luck and chance where companies now move new technology straight from the press to the shelves? And a fourth example: a Thermaltake power supply that I had only owned for 2 months suddenly decides to take a nose dive. Why? I have no clue, and it could have been a fluke, but that is still an illustration of poor quality that is infecting our technology market. Yet another illustration of this would be not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 sets of Crucial Ballistix RAM going bad in less than 8 months! What is in the world is happening to the companies I once trusted to carry me through?
Now to mend the ties I’ve severed, I am willing to forgive these companies, because they’ve all had very nice customer service, and have even shipped me brand new products before I’ve sent back the old (except the Xbox 360, which has yet to red ring, but inevitably will). But unless these quality issues are corrected soon, I may be looking for other companies to back my technology supplies because I currently don’t have the time to waste waiting for replacement parts (who does?)
The point I’m trying to get across is that the quality of the technology market is declining, and fast. Components are rarely built as sturdy and reliably as they once were and I fear this will only continue to heighten as inflation in the U.S. continues to rise (not to mention oil prices). Forget new, forget innovative, forget speedy — I want quality technology products that work the way they did brand new, 3 years down the road.
And that’s my rant of the day. Be sure to take it with a grain of salt (I know I have to).
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3 years ago