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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ata drive capabilities
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:15:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41e58dab51876f6acb892c0b4e16f047@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370712260518o119234f3h2179c4784a59ed3d@mail.gmail.com>

> what a pity! it would have been so great to have had
> an objective assessment of reliability by manufacturer.
> 
> i've found it really quite hard to find useful data to
> indicate how reliable a drive might be.

would it really help?  any numbers generated would be indicators
for models no longer being sold.  do we know that past manufacturing
performance insures future performance?  

i think that's why they call different drive batches "vintages".

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26  7:44 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 13:18 ` roger peppe
2007-12-26 18:15   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-27  9:01 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27 15:15 ` Brantley Coile
2007-12-27  6:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27  7:28 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 16:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 18:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-25 21:40 Christian Kellermann
2007-12-25 21:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-25 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26  6:31   ` ron minnich
2007-12-26 13:10     ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 19:52       ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 20:13         ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-12-27 18:12           ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 23:58         ` Robert William Fuller
2007-12-27  2:34         ` erik quanstrom

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