[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Rob Smith <kormoc at mythtv.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So drives went from an expected 1% annual failure rate to 1% to 7%.
>> That is a big jump, I agree. To me some thing had to give when prices
>> came down from $300 per hard drive for mid end models to under $100
>> for the same today.
>
> Please include references to such amazing claims of industry wide
> failure rate increases. Current studies[1] don't indicate such failure
> rates.
>
>
> [1] research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
>

I do not see 1 to 7 being far out of line of the document you referenced.

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John M. Drescher