Hard drive and risk factor

    Very often, our customers ask for advice on which company’s hard drive to buy. They are guided in addressing the issue precisely to us by the fact that we possess information about the most frequent damage to hard drives of a particular company. We hasten to disappoint our customers, since the presence in the repair of a larger number of disks of a particular company cannot serve as an indicator that this company produces unreliable disks.



    Here it is, our most important risk factor.
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    Too many factors affect statistics. There is a situation when the hard drives of any one manufacturer flooded the market at a certain time period, and, as a result, the presence of every second user of this particular hard drive leads to the fact that they get into repairs more often. It is logical to conclude that the reliability of a particular model could be estimated by comparing the number of discs sold and the number of broken ones. True, such conclusions will also not be entirely true, since there are a great many additional factors.
    For example, what statistics can fit into the following case?

    One day a respectable man comes into the office, holds out a disk and, embarrassed, asks: “Could you help me, it is very necessary to recover data from the disk. I’m, you see, a lawyer, there I need the information I need to work. ”
    We find out what happened to the disk. The customer, a little embarrassed, pulls out a trembling creature from his bosom, who looks around in horror and says: “Well, you see, he is afraid to be alone. This is such a breed of dogs, cowardly, Chow Chow. You have to carry with you everywhere. And then he worked, and he was sitting on the table. The phone rang, he fearfully and threw a puddle, but right on the disk. Acid, you know, how to restore. "
    And if you think that such a case is unique and you can not pay attention to it, referring to the statistical error, then you are deeply mistaken. The love of our people for cats and dogs, as well as the constant presence on the table of cups with hot coffee or even broth, leads to predictable consequences. And these are not the most difficult cases. You can familiarize yourself with the original adventures of our Customers with us. Here is a cleaning lady with a broom, and a question of family happiness.
    There was a time when users calmly purchased discs, paying absolutely no attention to their brand. But, as always, the incident failed. In the early 2000s, manufacturers released several series of unreliable models of hard drives. When purchasing these hard drives, many users faced some of the same problem in their operation. The news of this incident spread widely through word of mouth and on the Internet. After that, the question arose about the possibility of choosing a reliable manufacturer. Manufacturers who made such a mistake have long quietly and quietly left this market. And the brands remaining on the market are so close to each other in terms of the technologies used that it is most often unwise to look for the best manufacturer among them.
    From all that has been said, it follows that in choosing a hard drive it is necessary to be guided not by the brand, brand of the manufacturer, but mainly by the characteristics that you expect from it.
    It should be noted that for the computer to work optimally, all of its components must be balanced in performance. Therefore, when buying a hard drive, you must try to choose the main characteristics of its model in accordance with the main characteristics of the computer. For graphic stations, publishing systems, these will be some characteristics, for the performance of standard office applications - others. And the completely necessary parameters of the hard drives for the database server will be completely different.

    We draw conclusions. Hard drives of all manufacturers are equally reliable. You need to select the drives you need in accordance with its technical parameters and your financial capabilities. And in more detail about whether it is possible to say that a drive of a certain company is reliable, you can read here .
    And most importantly, keep discs away from “risk factors” with tails, ears and sharp claws. You won’t believe it, because there is no official data, but our corporate statistics cry out: “Beware”, but not of the car, about him next time, but of a sweet and affectionate pet. So can we do a study?
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