> ...Dell, HP, and the like are under so much pressure to cut margins that they'll go with whoever is cheapest, and customers almost never escalate things to to

> ...Dell, HP, and the like are under so much pressure to cut margins that they'll go with whoever is cheapest, and customers almost never escalate things to tort. Can confirm. Have an office supplied HP business desktop. One day noticed that my system is slower than normal. After 5 minutes with smartctl, I found out that the SSD was constantly throttling down SATA link (SATA downshift), was not reading or writing more than ~250 MBps, and had some wonky latency issues. Got a new SSD, moved the drive with dd, and all my problems are solved. Previous drive was by Samsung, but it was a "value" drive which even Google knew nothing about. It was probably built with bottom of the barrel parts, and something went bad earlier than expected.