Thanks, CH, that contains some good advice.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Seeking Hard Drive Advice
>I have been working in electronics manufacturing for over 20 years, I know
> it very well that company culture will have big influence on the product
> quality/reliability. First half of my working life was in computer
> manufacturing and 2nd half was lighting business, I was working at one of
> the two world's biggest lighting company. It has very straight quality
> control system. a major part is supplier control, it is very important and
> many companies just ignore or not doing very well here. Of course there is
> design and production control, all are well documented so it will sustain
> better with change of people.
>
> The reputation of a company (customer statistic) is rather important,
> since
> ISO9001:2000, the ISO9000 control system has shifted to more stress on
> customer feedback. Your one own experience does not represent much but
> when
> the statistic comes to hundreds or thousands then it is rather accurate.
>
> Everyone is doing product cost reduction (making changes), the companies
> which truly put quality in the first place will do better than the others
> and I can assure you that not every company is doing the same.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> On 7/3/2010 3:24 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Hi Moose,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the thoughtful dissertation. ... Since the computer was
>>> purchased in 2005, I figure that most current drives will outlive the
>>> computer itself.
>>
>> Well, a while ago, I bought a drive to back-up my C: and it died in the
>> process of the back-up. From a major maker, a
>> drive that looked good from reviews.
>>
>>> I just hate to get in the business of testing hard drives, and
>>> duplicating the bad choices that others may have made.
>>
>> As the above illustrates, and as was the primary thrust of my
>> dissertation; statistically, it's simply not possible to
>> significantly better your chances of a failure through intelligent
>> choice.
>> It seems that one should be able to, but I
>> don't think it's true.
>>
>> In addition to the pure statistical situation, the manufacturers are in a
>> continuous process of changing their products
>> under the skin, both to lower costs and to improve
>> performance/reliability. I've received two drives on the same order
>> with different hardware/firmware ID nos. There are some thing we just
>> can't know.
>>
>> As a completely statistically meaningless data point, I used that
>> principle in buying my most recent two, 1TB, HD,
>> buying the least expensive name brand at the time, and have had no
>> trouble
>> yet. I can say with assurance that I spent
>> almost infinitely less time, effort and brain cells doing it that way.
>>
>> Moose
>
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