On 10/20/2014 02:17 PM, John Andersen wrote:
My experience is that the former is in most cases associated with infant mortality and the latter is associated with the year immediately after the warranty ran out.
Sadly it didn't used to be like that but engineers are getting better at making 'lifetime' one of the design specifications. As has been mentioned before, I have old old 20G and 30G drives that will not die. Compare this to the 500G and 750G I've had that outlast warranty by a few months or a year at the outside. I expect my 1T and 2T drives to die the day after warranty. OK, that's not fair. About 1/3rd of my 1T drives died within a few days. In ancient times in places where energy such as coal was expensive the bathing tradition was to have a bucket of (cold) water poured over you, soap up and scrub, then rinse off (in cold water). Afterwards there was the equivalent of the hot tub, but you had to be scrubbed clean first. I wonder if there is an equivalent of the "cold scrub" or the "shower" before getting into the tub for hardware. "Acceptance Testing"? -- Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org