On May 10, 2012 6:54 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It doesn't matter what brand you go with > > > > Especially true since there are only 2 companies actually making > > consumer hard drives anymore: WD and Seagate. Both of them seem to > > know what they are doing, for the most part... > > > > Some hard drives fail at the beginning of their life. All hard drives > > fail at the end of their life. :) > > > > > > > I'm about to show my age so please close your eyes. Pretty please. -_- > > Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for > electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially > for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after > several years it goes back up again. At the beginning of the curve, the > thought was it could be a bad solder job, bad components or some other > problem. At the other end was just when age kicked in. Sweat spot is > in the middle. > > I try to keep these things in mind. Example. I bought a TV a couple > years ago. My old TV was about 20 years old and the power supply had > some sort of issue. It was either a diode getting weak or a capacitor > was going bad. It had the little sine waves going up the screen. It > was hard to see but was visible when the screen was all the same colour. > Age was creeping up on this thing. > > Anyway, when my DirecTv box went out, it was years old too, I went to > get me a new one. While there I saw this nice LCD TV sitting on a shelf > and I might add, it looked so lonesome. lol It was marked down about > half price. Hmmm, was it repaired or what? I asked a guy what the deal > was. He said it was their display model. My first thought was that > this could have already went through the first part of the curve. So, I > asked how long it was on display. He said about 9 or 10 months. He > thinks I am buying used and I'm thinking that this thing has already > went through the bad part of its life. > > I walked out with a $800 TV for about $400. I think I got the better > deal myself. >
Heeey, that's a good point! Now I know that buying display units might be the best deal. Thanks, again! I'll now be keeping an eye open for such deals ;-) Rgds,
