That is why quality is going down.  Costs a lot to perform quality control on 
mechanical things and consumers don't seem so willing to pay for it.  So, they 
lower their standards, sell more drives more often at lower margin and just 
accept the higher failure rate.  Standard failure rates look like a bathtub 
curve with a lot of failures early in a devices life, very few in the middle and 
quite a few as the device nears what is considered EOL for it.

> That is simply outrageous!
> We need to demand better quality for stuff that needs to last. And they don;t 
> need to charge more for that quality too! I can barely afford it as it stands 
> now. 
> 
> On Sunday 11 April 2004 15:25, steve wiebelhaus wrote:
> 
>>Must be why some manufacturers are cutting back to 1 year warranties on
>>drives.
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