Guruboy wrote: =============== All the horror stories you here are either lies, someone who didn't treat their computer properly, or the one in a million chance that something actually went wrong (as with all computers). ========== So I've got about 2200 leased Dells here at work. Over the past 2 years we have had at least 1 hard drive failure PER WEEK. In addition to that Dell just came in and did a warranty motherboard replacement due to bad capacitors on close to half of them. That puts me around 55% chance of failure in 2 years. If I graph that linearly (and I admit not the best method when dealing with percentages) that gives me...
A "one in a million chance" that the Dell on my desk will have a hardware failure in the next 3 hours and 11 minutes!
How did you arrive at your "one in a million" statistic?
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Guruboy wrote:
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All the horror stories you here are either lies, someone who didn't treat their computer properly, or the one in a million chance that something actually went wrong (as with all computers).
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So I've got about 2200 leased Dells here at work. Over the past 2 years we have had at least 1 hard drive failure PER WEEK. In addition to that Dell just came in and did a warranty motherboard replacement due to bad capacitors on close to half of them. That puts me around 55% chance of failure in 2 years. If I graph that linearly (and I admit not the best method when dealing with percentages) that gives me...
A "one in a million chance" that the Dell on my desk will have a hardware failure in the next 3 hours and 11 minutes!
How did you arrive at your "one in a million" statistic?