Messages in this thread | | | From | "Norman Diamond" <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:34:48 +0900 |
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Eric Mudama wrote:
> 1. Pay a premium for longer warranty.
I've commented on this already.
> 2. Do qualification tests yourself during the first year of operation.
Yeah, I need to deliberately damage one block in order to test the firmware, but I don't want to damage multiple blocks and use up the reallocation space. I am a home user, even if I also do programming at work, even if I also volunteer one day each weekend to test Linux. How can I arrange to damage one block on a disk?
> 3. Look at what products are being shipped in large volume from OEMs, and > buy the same product yourself. Dell or HP or IBM can't afford to ship > products that don't have the lowest in-the-field failure rates, so buying > what they buy would make sense since they'll run their own tests like #2.
I'm not sure how many Dell notebooks you'll have to open to see a Toshiba drive, but I'll bet the number is low. Also do you recognize the name Toshiba as a large maker of notebook PCs, and do you have any guesses as to how many Toshiba notebooks you'll have to open to see a Toshiba drive? Toshiba already reduced their former US 3-year warranties to 1 year and provide 0 warranty directly to customers in Japan. (Maybe they should follow the ideas of a certain dominant software maker and pretend to have a 90-day warranty but in fact renege every time a failure occurs? There would be 0 difference in what needs to be done in software to make up for it.)
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