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On May 10, 2012 6:54 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Heeey, that's a good point! Now I know that buying display units might be |
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the best deal. |
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Thanks, again! I'll now be keeping an eye open for such deals ;-) |
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Rgds, |
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