On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking for the less obvious .. a 500GB SATA drive, still under > warranty, no particular reason it should physically fail just now.
It's a numbers game. Let's say a company has a 90% success rate with drives. It probably costs less to offer a warranty to replaces those 10% than it does to improve the success rate to 99%. In essence, the company is foregoing the cost of QA and shifting part of its QC to its customers. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
