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Originally Posted by Razor6
No I'm well aware of it. The $60 was just me picking something half-way between D4 and Mag3 price, a nice improved price point that wasn't as low as $45.
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I don't know. Nice to have things that are cheap - sure. However to buy something that's meant to last for 6-7 yrs running full-time non-stop and then complain about $20 just seems a little strange to me.
I must be an odd person. Whenever I buy something, I tend to divide the cost of the item by the usuable life-span of the item, and the importance of the application of the item, and then decide on that basis whether or not said item is expensive.
The March pump still seems like a good deal to me, even at $120US. $20/yr seems to me to be an asbolute pittance to pay for a rock-solid industrial quality pump.
I don't even consider the Mag 3 as something much better than total junk, what with its propensity to leak and its need to be end-user modified to fix that problem.
I'd rather a pump that was looking after my highly important computing cooling needs for the next 6-7yrs to be engineered and made properly, over-engineered in fact, rather than buying a pump that's barely holding onto its integrity and requires attention from the end-user.
Buying the cheapest possible thing
all the time, especially for something that's doing a fairly important job, really is just false economy IMO.