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    Who knew?

    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    What others say:
    I should of checked here first but my research lead to the same thing. Looking on Amazon for one of their drives there are 4 reviews. 3 of which say their drive died quickly, with two saying that Emtec doesn’t honor their warranty. They will apparently not respond to warranty requests.
    After reading that, I’m going to avoid these drives like the plague.
    They rent out the Kodak name for people with too much junk on hand. Just like Polaroid. The name is the most valuable asset to the company. I remember a “Polaroid” digital camera on Woot years ago, someone commented it’s a “great brand” - I replied that if you would buy a camera with the same specs and warranty that had the name “Craparoid” go for it!

    Even when a company like Kodak survives, it makes money by leasing out it’s name for brand recognition. How committed is Kodak to ‘producing’ - (picking a company in China to rent it’s name to), great reliable solid state drives? Google search Kodak Solid State Drive… yeah.
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    And this:
    I like how they couldn’t even get SATA III right on the label…
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    Well---I was impressed for a little while anyway!

    Maybe the success here will be to hasten the suicide
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Well---I was impressed for a little while anyway!
    Well, it means Kodak is at least doing something to bring in some $$$...I suppose that even whoring out the family name is better than sitting idly by waiting for death...Still sad though......Ben
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    Maybe they should look into producing buggy whips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Maybe they should look into producing buggy whips.
    This is your mind on drugs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Maybe they should look into producing buggy whips.
    That's where the money is for the manufacturer since it's a common wear item...They wear out under constant snapping over the horse's head...Buggy whip sockets are usually just OEM purchases since they see little wear, and only get replaced in case of damage from a collision with another buggy...I understand Kodak has a large inventory of buggy whip sockets ready to ship, and needs funding to retool for buggy whip production......Ben
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