On Friday 03 September 2004 16:26, Felix Miata wrote:
different brands of PS & motherboard. The problem is HD QC has been shaved too thin as data densities have approached the stratosphere, and I suspect motherboards aren't what they ought to be either.
Very true. But I tend to believe that for the most part the odds of something failing before it reasonably should, or not failing, is irrelevant. Something will break or it won't. So it's 50/50. It's like the weather prediction: "there's a 95% chance for rain" and then the sun shines all day. It's will rain or it won't. A nice example is my mother's PC. It runs on a power grid so bad it hosed some pretty stable machinery (most notably the washing machine, and also the UPS I bought her). Somehow she still has her original power supply, and her WD disc (from WD's really dodgy era) laster three years. The Deskstar I replaced it with is still going strong, and nothing else in the machine has given any trouble. Which is why, even though I buy what I perceive as quality components as far as is possible, I assume that it can fail the very next day. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za