You just showed my point exactly. This gives us, normal consumers of desktop drives, nothing. Yet you still seem to think it does. These failure rates mean nothing to "us".
As a
Folder, a
Cruncher, a
regular on this forum, with 4 "rigs" in your sig, you cannot convince me that you are a "regular consumer", or that you didn't understand exactly what the article told you when you read the whole thing. Just won't happen. Not really sure why you're drawing this line in the sand over something that you obviously understood from the get-go.
Tek, we can't force everyone to use their brains. We can't force them to fully read an article in order to make in informed decision. We can't babysit them all. The Internet
will be wrong, a lot, and so will those using it, myself included in that sample. We could look at half the articles on
here, read half the article, and insist that it was misleading. Which would then get us smacked in the heads by several other regulars for being too stupid to use an etch-a-sketch, much less a PC.
If you consider yourself a "normal consumer" (which I still, no offense intended, disagree with), you understood it, so therefore those failure rates did mean something to a "normal consumer". Whether you are or aren't, we still can't control people who don't bother to read an entire article and draw incorrect conclusions. It's that simple. Reading the whole article tells exactly what they intended. Not reading it could lead one to conclude that lighter colored-logo drives fail more than darker colored ones. Ridiculous, but no worse simply because I drew that conclusion from the diagram instead of reading the article.
We
can't force them to think!! If you got something useful from the article, great!! If you didn't, ask someone to explain! If that's too much effort, pick something new to read! I don't get the problem....
