>Note that damaged components can take weeks, or months to appear. >(especialy on disk drives, where damaged cmoss chips may work fine for a >long time, then simply show up in higher frequency failure rates.) I have >seen both this in repair shops and disk drive assembly shops. The static >never shows on the surface, but one bad/lazy worker can have 10 times the >1 year failure rates when tracked. ;-)
Being that I'm the guy that has to service everything, I know my cumulative failure rates... and I can still safely say that I have had exactly ZERO problems from static in the 26 or so years that I've had my hands inside computers. But like I said, I don't advocate anyone actually taking my experience as the way to go... just because I play roulette with my hardware doesn't mean anyone else should. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
