Re: Seagate: Fine 1 day, bad the next

Previously TonyB <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arno Wagner <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Previously TonyB <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Arno Wagner <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>>> Irrelevant to whether it may well have happened in his case.

>> Huh? And why is that? Ever heard of statistics? Obviously not....

> Statistics are completely irrevant to what he has seen.

As I said...

>>> Most obviously with a sudden partial failure of the read
>>> electronics so say the read amplifier gain has gone bad.

>> Non-power electronics does very seldomly fail suddenly since
>> the tube days are over, unless operated seriously out of spec.
>> The typical pattern is allmost allways a slower degradation.

> Wrong. You still get sudden failures, most
> obviously if one of the bond wires comes off etc.

That would be a mechanical or electrical failure not an electronic
one.

Arno

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