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