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Centre Parting wrote:
> PeeCee wrote:
>> "Centre Parting" <nokia.account@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:73tmb3F10opn6U1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>> class action suite bought by
>>> the US gov.t against IBM for HDD failures.
>>
>>
>> I take it there is some sort of heat related failure? do you have a
>> url? Most of the searches I did found financial securities and other
>> business actions.
>>
>>
>>> I would rather believe the evidence of my own experience than some
>>> bullshit 'study'
>>
>>
>> Fair enough, one can only live life as one has experienced it.
>>
>> On that basis however 'my' experience tells me having a fan blowing
>> on a Hard drive does not extend it's life.
>> In fact just the opposite.
>> (Unfortunately my sample has only two failed drives out of 14
>> installed. This covers 7 PC's from 2002 to 2009. )
>>
>> In case #1 the single drive in the case had a fan directed at the
>> underneath from new, it died at about 24 Months.
>
> Manufacturing defect ?
> That heat causes HDD failures does not somehow exclude other factors
> from doing so too - as you are inferring.
>
> The Google study presumably polled a lot of PC users about HDD failures.

Nope, they analysed the failures of THEIR OWN hard drives.

> Unfortunately, there is a component of the population that refuses to
> accept things they cannot understand - a typically left-brain-dominant
> characteristic that derives from an ability to see the bigger picture.
> Techies are predominantly left-brain thinkers and as such, frequently
> express frustration when unable to understand WHY something happens.
>
> This is frequently manifest as an autistic-like, stubborn refusal to
> accept what they see before them - indeed, it can even be manifest as
> a need to prove the opposite of what they see before them, so irksome
> do they find their failure to understand.
> But then, left-brainers are not big on understanding because they
> lack the vision and imagination required to see the wood for the
> trees.
> Of the laptops I have to repair, I'd say 80-90% are down to failed
> HDD's. My desktop repairs have nothing like this failure rate.
>
> Draw your own conclusions.
>
>
>> Case #2 has 3 drives in it, two had a front mounted fan blowin air
>> over them (again from new), the third was buried in a 3.5" cage under
>> the floppy drive.
>> On this machine it was a drive in the fan air stream that died, again
>> at about 24 months.
>> Cases 3 to 7 didn't have any drive failures and none of those had a
>> fan blowing over the hard drives.
>>
>> Paul.