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TheRealMafoo on 11 April 2008
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shams said:
TheRealMafoo said:
shams said:
I don't believe 2%-4% of PS3s have this error - that would almost be an epidemic.

10m PS3 --> 300,000 faulty consoles due to this error alone.

2-4% of hard drives fail. How do you explain the ones in the PS3 not? If it makes you feel any better, the same rate fail in the 360.

Hard drives fail. It's a fact of life.

Yes - they fail.

But over what time period? You don't get a 2-4%  failure rate "instantanously" - that is why there is a QA department, and why there is a quality control procedure for hardware manufacturing companies. There is NO way that 3% of hard drives put into new PS3s are "faulty" - just no way.

If you are saying that 3% of all hard drives fail over a period of say - 4 years - then I completely agree with you. Then within 3 years, 3% of launch PS3s will have failed for this reason. This I agree with.  

 


 From the article I linked:

The Carnegie Mellon study examined large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and Internet services sites running SCSI, FC and SATA drives. The data sheets for those drives listed MTBF between 1 million to 1.5 million hours, which the study said should mean annual failure rates "of at most 0.88%." However, the study showed typical annual replacement rates of between 2% and 4% 

This could mean that the failure rate is closer to 1%, and the delta in that study was returned drives that were actually not faulty.

Really the only reason for this thread is to let everyone know this error is due to hardware that just fails. Not really an issue with build quality that could be avoided (other then if they made a choice not to use a hard drive, but I will take the advantage of the HD for the risk of it failing :p)