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.
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