On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's a shame that can be said at all about hard-drives these days. When I left HMT they were actually cranking out decent product (monstly ZIP blanks). It makes me think most of the hardware manufacturers have eliminated their test and QC departments and re-allocated the vacant space with implements to increase production capacity. Numbers, its all numbers....until "YOUR" hard-drive dies.
Well, it really is just a fact of life, especially when you are working with moving parts. Especially moving parts that are moving at 7200 RPM or more. I do agree that we seem to have more failures "nowadays" but I'd wager that has more with narrowing of the performance envelope that the drives have to operate within to get the performance and data density we want, than it does with a decrease in QA. Also consider that hard drives are a heck of a lot more common than they used to be. At the hard drive population peak in my folks house there were two hard disks, a 40MB MFM in my folks computer and a 250MB IDE in mine. When I moved out, the population went back down to one until they got a Tivo. Compare that to today, and there are 15 hard disks _that I can see on my desk right now, as I turn my head_. I bet a real count of drives in my house would more than double that number. Since your time to failure gets cut in half every time you add a drive*, that number quickly begins to approach zero... * I know this isn't actually mathematically correct, but it's close enough to make the point. -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman-
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