On Wed 28 Feb 2007 12:53:19 NZDT +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: Thanks Kent.
> Computer killed 2 Samsungs ( disk useless, but still ran, but very > slow, disk kept stopping responding randomly ), and a Western digital You can't do statistics on a sample of 2. Btw smartmontools will tell you what the disk thinks the damage is. I've had 2 Samsungs die within 8 months (the one I bought, and the replacement), although this particular model was reported by people with larger sample sizes as being very reliable. I bought a Samsung again because I like them (quiet, not hot-running). > me. Toms Hardware recently did a review on a bunch of -new- psu's and > found their long-term stress tollerance below tollerable on many > models, Entirely plausible! > and did write in the section that sometimes they have > computers which seem to have all sorts of werid problems which the > only solution that works is replacement of PSU. This is an entirely different topic: microchips are specified for a nominal voltage plus/minus tolerance, e.g. 5V +-5%, at all times. Operation outside of this tolerance can lead to malfunction and/or permanent damage. In practice, undervoltage won't cause damage (overvoltage will), but will cause the chip to not work properly. So if you have a lousy power supply which can't regulate to within specified limits, this includes times when disks spin up or your CPU load goes 0 to 100%, then the resulting unreliable operation is to be expected. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
