Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201281615010.19665-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <200201282315.g0SNFBD95108@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org>
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> It's an insignificant statistic (probably talking about 2% of only a few > hundred drives), but impresses on me... On a smaller scale I personally > own about 20 drives, of those I've ever powered on, and of those two are > Seagates, one dead and the other [Barracuda] relegated to a cupboard > unpowered because of the noise it makes, replaced by a whispering Fujitsu; > all the rest are powered up and working, some after 9 years' duty). 2% *is* insignificant. You can not get less than that in electronics. No manufacturer builds any product with less then 2% failure rate. If any company I've ever dealt with claimed less then 2%, I'd be looking at their numbers pretty carefully. Granted it's annoying when you're the 2%... This is one of the reasons Packard Bell is out of buisness. They claimed 2% failure rate. What they forgot to mention is that it was a 5% failure rate on NEW builds, 2% on the remanufactured products. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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