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I don't know ... It is not uncommon for a new device (like a Blu-Ray drive) to have issues in first generation products; being that we haven't seen too many reports I don't think that the PS3 is above the levels you would typically expect of a product as new as this.



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No problem with my PS3, those users must be part of the 0.3% failure group that Sony has on the PS3.



There is no lens problem, some software compability issues yes. PS3 is at less then 1% failure rate.



Mars said:
There is no lens problem, some software compability issues yes. PS3 is at less then 1% failure rate.

If you want to say the reliability is good, just say "The PS3's reliability is good" ... Don't make up numbers!



The crashes certainly have happened.

However, upon Reboot (Game over, User wins), the discs still have read every single time.



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HappySqurriel said:
Mars said:
There is no lens problem, some software compability issues yes. PS3 is at less then 1% failure rate.
If you want to say the reliability is good, just say "The PS3's reliability is good" ... Don't make up numbers!
I've heard "less than 1%" also. What's the real number and what is your source?

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Final-Fan said:
HappySqurriel said:
Mars said:
There is no lens problem, some software compability issues yes. PS3 is at less then 1% failure rate.
If you want to say the reliability is good, just say "The PS3's reliability is good" ... Don't make up numbers!
I've heard "less than 1%" also. What's the real number and what is your source?

I don't have a number and I don't have a source ... Just having heard "less than 1%" is not very trustworthy, or believeable. Also, less than 1% is not (in general) believeable because (unless Sony found 'magical' hard-drives) the hard-drive's failure rate shoud be noticeably higher than that.



Fuzzmosis said:
The crashes certainly have happened.

However, upon Reboot (Game over, User wins), the discs still have read every single time.

 This is all very strange to me, because my ps3 never crashed a single time, and it only froze once, during a game of Warhawk, yet I had mine since Dec. 5 2006.  It seems strange that I've had almost no "normal" problems, yet my drive just up and dies a year and four weeks after I get the system.



HappySqurriel said:
Final-Fan said:
HappySqurriel said:
Mars said:
There is no lens problem, some software compability issues yes. PS3 is at less then 1% failure rate.
If you want to say the reliability is good, just say "The PS3's reliability is good" ... Don't make up numbers!
I've heard "less than 1%" also. What's the real number and what is your source?
I don't have a number and I don't have a source ... Just having heard "less than 1%" is not very trustworthy, or believeable. Also, less than 1% is not (in general) believeable because (unless Sony found 'magical' hard-drives) the hard-drive's failure rate shoud be noticeably higher than that.
Are you sure?  I thought that hard drives were very reliable these days.  The PS3 is barely more than a year old so I would expect very very small failure rates from solely HDD failure. 

(Wikipedia sez 600,000 hours MTBF for average quality SATA HDD, which would be 2.5% in a year if they were all running 24/7.  So I would be surprised at more than 0.5% HDD failure rate to date in PS3s.)

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making: That's a damn shame (The PS3 I play on, I don't own it, was bought Dec 17, 2006), just relating my experience though. I wouldn't make it out to "Crashes constantly" but enough to take notice of it.



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