This is totally off topic, but I thought would be interesting to the WHU.
I know someone who works for a major hard drive manufacturer. One day he told me to never buy a hard drive from Best Buy, Circuit City (moot point now), or any other store. He said to buy them online from someplace like NewEgg. And he told me why.
Every hard drive that is manufactured is tested. A 160GB hard drive spends two days in a testing bed. A terabyte hard drive spends upwards of two weeks in a testing bed. If a drive fails to perform to specs, it is tossed and doesn’t get sold.
But here’s the thing:
The hard drives that pass testing range from just barely acceptable, to phenomenal performance, as you would expect. But every hard drive manufacturer actually splits them up by performance. The absolute best performing drives are sold to computer manufacturers – Dell, Gateway, whomever. The next step down are sold to internet retailers like NewEgg. Then the worse performing ones are put in a box and sold to the stores.
Sure, all of the hard drives passed minimum testing requirements, but they are not all equal. So buy online.
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This happens with most computing hardware, from CPU’s to one area that the manufacturers are really pushing things like “Gold edition” GPU’s. Because we live in a world exposed to variable change right down to consistency of the materials on an atomic level, computer hardware varies. I think that it should be compulsory that the stress test results are printed onto the box/component label. Lets be honest, think about picking fruit and veg blind, you won’t know if you got a moldy one now would you?