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Re: [OM] Seeking Hard Drive Advice

Subject: Re: [OM] Seeking Hard Drive Advice
From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 07:52:19 +0800
I have been working in electronics manufacturing for over 20 years, I know 
it very well that company culture will have big influence on the product 
quality/reliability. First half of my working life was in computer 
manufacturing and 2nd half was lighting business, I was working at one of 
the two world's biggest lighting company. It has very straight quality 
control system. a major part is supplier control, it is very important and 
many companies just ignore or not doing very well here. Of course there is 
design and production control, all are well documented so it will sustain 
better with change of people.

The reputation of a company (customer statistic) is rather important, since 
ISO9001:2000, the ISO9000 control system has shifted to more stress on 
customer feedback. Your one own experience does not represent much but when 
the statistic comes to hundreds or thousands then it is rather accurate.

Everyone is doing product cost reduction (making changes), the companies 
which truly put quality in the first place will do better than the others 
and I can assure you that not every company is doing the same.

C.H.Ling


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>

>  On 7/3/2010 3:24 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Hi Moose,
>>
>> Thanks for the thoughtful dissertation. ...  Since the computer was 
>> purchased in 2005, I figure that most current drives will outlive the 
>> computer itself.
>
> Well, a while ago, I bought a drive to back-up my C: and it died in the 
> process of the back-up. From a major maker, a
> drive that looked good from reviews.
>
>> I just hate to get in the business of testing hard drives, and 
>> duplicating the bad choices that others may have made.
>
> As the above illustrates, and as was the primary thrust of my 
> dissertation; statistically, it's simply not possible to
> significantly better your chances of a failure through intelligent choice. 
> It seems that one should be able to, but I
> don't think it's true.
>
> In addition to the pure statistical situation, the manufacturers are in a 
> continuous process of changing their products
> under the skin, both to lower costs and to improve 
> performance/reliability. I've received two drives on the same order
> with different hardware/firmware ID nos. There are some thing we just 
> can't know.
>
> As a completely statistically meaningless data point, I used that 
> principle in buying my most recent two, 1TB, HD,
> buying the least expensive name brand at the time, and have had no trouble 
> yet. I can say with assurance that I spent
> almost infinitely less time, effort and brain cells doing it that way.
>
> Moose

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