From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 28 15:19:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9D637B41C for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B2C4118F4; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA00E18F3; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Mark Valentine Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs In-Reply-To: <200201282315.g0SNFBD95108@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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