🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
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>
> 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'
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>
> 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.

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.