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To: Raven McCloud who wrote (2736)	10/27/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Raven, good question. I don't have the answer (the numbers), but wouldn't be surprised if you were proven right. Simply because fixed drives are completely sealed and removable drives cannot be. So contamination from the environment is more likely to affect removable drives. Gottfried

To: Raven McCloud who wrote (2736)	10/28/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Re: Isn't it true though, that removable storage has a greater failure rate than fixed storage? The failure rate between hard drives and removable drives isn't a fair comparison. Hard drives are exhaustively used by systems so much so that a higher failure rate is expected.. It is my experience that their failure rate is greater than Zip drives. >>If that's the case then those business that want great assurance would chose to go with fixed storage over removable. << Further a hard drive crash is most often catastrophic while with removable drives the data is more often stored on more than one disk ( should be, I've got at least four copies of my data ) there by lessening the impact of the loss of drive. I don't care about the drive, I care about my data. I can't speak for the industry other than my own experience but wouldn't expect my numbers to be an exception Regards Reseller

To: Raven McCloud who wrote (2736)	10/28/1998 8:01:00 AM
From: Zebedee Wright, Jr.	Respond to of 10072

Raven On page 24 of the latest issue of Maximum PC magazine (formerly Boot) it states that "according to Michael Mitoma,IBM's program director of hard drive customer satisfaction, approximately 3% to 5% of all hard drives shipped to consumers are returned for warranty repair...but 60% to 85% are determined to be no defect found." So, 15% of 3% and 40% of 5% gives you a defective range of fixed hard drives of between .45% to 2%. These are only the new and out of the box items. Over time, a greater percentage will fail. My on personal experience with fixed drives suggests that a 30% failure rate within 3 yrs is not uncommon. Hope this helps. Zebedee