Wow john thanks. You make me feel better. Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling my headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working. I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying: "Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you." Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working. Your e-mail makes me feel much better. Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it. -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john Sent: 05 September 2014 06:19 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last
I think that you've misinterpreted my initial statement. I wasn't saying that you should abuse your equipment simply for the sake of abusing it. I was saying that its pointless (and possibly harmful) to 100% baby it. This is especially true in the case of hard drives, which were our initial subject matter. If you purchase a disk, you have no way of telling whether or not you've bought a device which is actually solidly built, or a disk which has manufacturer defects and thus will ware out substantially faster and fail well before most other disks will. By babying this equipment, treating it as carefully as you possibly can, you meerely increase the chances that, should the disk have defects, when it does fail, you will have important information on it (such as your game product keys). If you don't hesitate to be a bit rough on your equipment, when those manufacturer defects send everything sky high, you're more likely to be able to recover easily, because the equipment failed very early on, as opposed to seeming to be functional and giving you time to have mission-critical information stored on it. As you pointed out, I'm not exactly light on my hardware. As a result, I'm pretty much certain that all my current equipment is solid and will last me quite a while, because its already taken plenty of abuse and is still working as well as the day I got it. This isn't a guarantee, but at least I know I don't have an untested device with important information on it. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
