On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
It seems hard to believe that the vendors themselves wouldn't burn in the drives for half a day, if that's all it takes to eliminate a large fraction of infant mortality.
I've read that much of the damage that causes hard drive infant mortality is related to shipping. The drive is fine when it leaves the factory, gets shaken up and otherwise brutalized by environmental changes in transit (it's a long trip from Singapore to here), and therefore is a bit whacked by the time it is installed. A quick post-installation burn-in helps ferret out when this happens.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
