Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (22 mails)

[Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Paul Graydon <graydpau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Of our last summer batch of 80 odd 
> PCs, just two have had any hardware faults this
> year, and we see similar levels of faults going 
> back over the 4 or 5 years we've been using them
> (with one notable exception where they got a 
> really awful batch of HDDs, from a manufacturer they
> won't touch with a barge pole anymore, but 
> they did supply us with replacements in advance of
> HDDs failing once we started experiencing 
> problems so we had minimal downtime).  

Indeed, and this can happen to any supplier, no matter
what their size! Our supplier also had exactly this
problem. A dreadful batch of hardrives from a company
who also shall not be mentioned. Our supplier was RM,
so no one can argue that you wouldn't have had your
problem "if you'd gone with a larger supplier".

Cheers

--
Matt

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