[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
> Looking at hard drives on Newegg (I'm Canadian):
>
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317
> ^^ This is a WD Green 1TB/32mb cache for $74.99
>
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514
> ^^ This is a WD Green 2TB/64MB cache for $84.99
>
> Admittedly I'm fairly out of the loop with hardware news and the market, but
> is this "just the way it is" for the time or is there something else going
> on? Is the 2TB flawed? 4/5 eggs with 830 reviews, same rating as the 1TB.
>

Most current SATA drives on the market are flawed. I the expectation
is 1% to 7% of all your drives will fail each year. And the failures
do not always have anything to do with old age or usage. Out of 100 to
200 drives I have at work I sent back RMAs on 6 to 8 and had 5 other
failures last year. Most of the RMAs were from drives that were less
than 3 years old. This year I have RMD'd 3 drives, had a DOA and 1
more drive ready to RMA.

John

John