[ILUG] Hardware queries

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

> There is one subscriber to this list who works for an organisation which
> suffers hundreds of drive failures a year from a population of multiple
> thousands. I'm sure he has good statistics for failure rates across different
> manufacturers. I'm even surer that he won't share them :-( (not by his
> choice).


Personally, I've always suspected the Hard disk game is a complete raquet.

I mean seriously, how difficult would it be, to make a reasonably cheap storage 
medium, sans moving parts?

Not too difficult, with the sorts of _huge_ budgets the hard disk manufacturers 
have... that said, said manufacturers would hardly have such big budgets to 
play with, if their products were more reliable.

Seems a bit of an oxymoron to rely on a vendor to make 'better' products, when 
a core contingent of their budget comes from replacements.	

-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
Embedded Software Engineer

Europlex Technologies Ltd
Clonshaugh Business & Technology Park
Dublin 17
Ireland

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