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Subject:    Re: Western Digital HDs
From:       Rick Hamell <hamellr () heorot ! 1nova ! com>
Date:       2002-01-29 0:19:09
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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

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