Chuck,
I agree with your practices. And the same approach applies to new autos.
Let someone else do the beta testing!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Seeking Hard Drive Advice
>I do have one rule that I follow that I think makes for a somewhat
> better chance of getting a reliable drive... don't get the highest
> capacity drive available. Although some capacity increases are done
> with rather conventional methods (I think the recent increase from 1.5TB
> to 2.0TB was done using 5 platters rather than 4) sometimes it's done
> with very new technology and under competitive pressure. Working OK in
> the lab and working OK off the end of a high volume manufacturing line
> perhaps with totally new and untested components are different things.
> I prefer to give the technology a bit of time to settle. I'm frankly
> quite amazed that today's hard drives work at all. It might be
> instructive to know how many read operations on 1TB+ drives succeed only
> because the read errors were recovered by a large number of ECC bits. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Moose wrote:
>> On 7/3/2010 4:52 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>>> 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. ...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I don't disagree with you at all. I'm talking about the other end,
>> the poor souls who wants to choose the best HD. I still believe it's
>> impossible to know enough to make a decision that makes a difference,
>> a least without spending enormous effort - only to discover that one
>> has to start over again, as models have been discontinued and new
>> models reached the market.
>>
>> Even the best manufacturer doesn't really know how a new model will
>> fare in the real world until there are many thousands in service.
>> Back when I spent a lot of time reading reviews, I encountered
>> examples of this. A model would have problems and the manufacturer
>> would change the drive, then later users would say it was fine.
>>
>> The least cost solution, in time and sanity, at least, still seems to
>> me to be the one I outlined.
>>
>> Moose
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