🚀 go-pugleaf

Rod Speed wrote:
> 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.

So they polled their own IT staff.

>
>> 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.