XPost: alt.windows7.general
From: nospam@needed.invalid
On 2/29/2024 10:03 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
> "Paul" wrote
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> | But the Dell came from a factory too.
> |
> | You're probably thinking that Sparkle Ponies live
> | in a Dell factory.
> |
>
> :) I figure that Dell doesn't want returns, so they're probably
> doing a lot of testing with components, to make sure they're
> making a stable choice. I'm making a slightly educated guess
> and hoping for the best.
Dell is a box-assembler.
This means they want "modules" of some sort, tested to some level.
The brute force test you're thinking of ("test all the USB ports
just before computer goes into cardboard box"), is only one of the
ways of attaining equivalent product quality. There are other ways to
do it. And the field defect database, keeps track of how good a
job you're doing. If you are using statistical inference, then
that should be reflected in the defect database.
Even if a guy tests all the ports, before the computer is boxed,
it still doesn't have to work when you get it (infant mortality).
*******
A year ago, I bought three WD Black 1TB hard drives. One of the
three drives, the motor would not spin. Took it back to the
store, the guy in the computer assembly area handles returns,
and he could not get it to spin either. What's wrong with that ?
The motor has to spin, for the drive to be manufactured. It's
an integral part of the process. The crates drives ship in,
are "designed" crates. They're not random cardboard boxes.
They're meant to prevent shocks of more than a certain amount.
It's when a drive comes out of a crate, that when its "shock life" begins.
And that's my first "out-of-the-box" hard drive failure.
Paul
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