My sister is always on the habit of buying everything new. She splurges money especially when it comes to computer gadgets, because of her being a programmer; she feels that it pays to have good quality equipment. She’s got materials with famous brands such as HP SAN, among others. She is working in a top notch IT Company with wide internet resource. I always admire her painstaking search when buying her IT equipments, but when her data storage went on black out, that’s the time when she realized that proper handling is more important than buying first hand products.

I was quite her opposite, being prudent. I want to get the quality of every penny I use. So I suggested her to go and look into one of the reseller stores to buy a refurbished HP Storage. At first she was reluctant, until she finally gave it a try. She visited a computer equipment reseller and was surprised at the wide range of materials she saw. She was so excited because she saw these equipments still in a good condition but costs a lower price than those in IT specialty stores. She bought her new storages and equipments here, and became a fan of it ever since! That’s when she learns that the expensiveness of a material doesn’t mean it’s of a high quality. A lesson learned!