Saw that the other day, but didn't think to post it. Of course, Samsung's HDD unit has been bought by Seagate, and Hitachi by WD, so soon there will just be two players.
I really found the SSD rates more interesting: - Intel 0.1% (as against 0.3%) - Crucial 0.8% (as against 1.9%) - Corsair 2.9% (as against 2.7%) - OCZ 4.2% (as against 3.5%) (the part in parens() was the return rate in the same study published in May) So basically, there is quantitative evidence that SSDs are significantly more reliable than their magnetic counterparts, but only for those based on Intel (Intel) or Marvell (Crucial) controllers. Corsair and OCZ use Sandforce and Indilinx controllers, which while unquestionably performant, are garbage in terms of reliability. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 8:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Component Return Rates > > I thought this component return-rate article might be useful to folks here: > > http://www.behardware.com/articles/843-1/components-returns-rates- > 5.html > > example (Hard drives): > > - Samsung 1.5% (as against 1.8%) > - Seagate 1.8% (as against 2.0%) (1.6% not including the 7200.11 160 GB) > - Western 2.0% (as against 1.5%) > - Hitachi 3.0% (as against 3.1%) >
