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Centre Parting wrote:
> 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.

They didnt poll anyone, fuckwit.

>>> 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.