Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On May 10, 2012 6:54 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  It doesn't matter what brand you go with
> >
> > Especially true since there are only 2 companies actually making
> > consumer hard drives anymore: WD and Seagate. Both of them seem to
> > know what they are doing, for the most part...
> >
> > Some hard drives fail at the beginning of their life. All hard drives
> > fail at the end of their life. :)
> >
> >
>
>
> I'm about to show my age so please close your eyes.  Pretty please.  -_-
>
> Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for
> electronics life.  The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially
> for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after
> several years it goes back up again.  At the beginning of the curve, the
> thought was it could be a bad solder job, bad components or some other
> problem.  At the other end was just when age kicked in.  Sweat spot is
> in the middle.
>
> I try to keep these things in mind.  Example.  I bought a TV a couple
> years ago.  My old TV was about 20 years old and the power supply had
> some sort of issue.  It was either a diode getting weak or a capacitor
> was going bad.  It had the little sine waves going up the screen.  It
> was hard to see but was visible when the screen was all the same colour.
>  Age was creeping up on this thing.
>
> Anyway, when my DirecTv box went out, it was years old too, I went to
> get me a new one.  While there I saw this nice LCD TV sitting on a shelf
> and I might add, it looked so lonesome.  lol  It was marked down about
> half price.  Hmmm, was it repaired or what?  I asked a guy what the deal
> was.  He said it was their display model.  My first thought was that
> this could have already went through the first part of the curve.  So, I
> asked how long it was on display.  He said about 9 or 10 months.  He
> thinks I am buying used and I'm thinking that this thing has already
> went through the bad part of its life.
>
> I walked out with a $800 TV for about $400.  I think I got the better
> deal myself.
>

Heeey, that's a good point! Now I know that buying display units might be
the best deal.

Thanks, again! I'll now be keeping an eye open for such deals ;-)

Rgds,

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