There can't be "that" many DOA mobos

[LoneWolf15]

In my experience, usually once a drive starts to develop bad sectors the problem snowballs.

I always told my customers that bad sectors were like chicken pox --if you saw one, you were bound to see more eventually.

Fortunately, the worst drive manufacturers are history. Anyone remember JTS? Or going back further, Kalok, whose designs went to JTS (shudder)?

Think of all the HDD vendors gone. Micropolis (miss them a little). Miniscribe (there's a blast from the past). Conner Peripherals. Quantum. Maxtor. Excelstor (though they were pretty small). Fujitsu (tranferred to Toshiba, I hadn't realized that, but figured that they'd eventually fold that one up). WD has bought Hitachi's drive division (bought from IBM), so who knows for how much longer we'll see them.

And heaven help us if Seagate acquires Samsung's HDD division. I didn't realize it, but it appears that is the intention and looks like a done deal.

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/m ... dd-seagate

[just brew it!]

Think of all the HDD vendors gone. Micropolis (miss them a little). Miniscribe (there's a blast from the past). Conner Peripherals. Quantum. Maxtor.

IIRC Conner and Quantum were both acquired by Maxtor before Maxtor was acquired by Seagate...

[LoneWolf15]

Think of all the HDD vendors gone. Micropolis (miss them a little). Miniscribe (there's a blast from the past). Conner Peripherals. Quantum. Maxtor.

IIRC Conner and Quantum were both acquired by Maxtor before Maxtor was acquired by Seagate...

Quantum was. I'm trying to remember if Seagate acquired Conner directly, or if Maxtor got them, then Seagate got Maxtor.

EDIT: I checked; Seagate bought Conner directly. I thought I remembered seeing some Conner designs with Seagate's name stamped on them prior to those lines being discontinued.

[clone]

Its rare that you log in to Newegg to praise a working mobo that you bought. You bought it, so therefore it SHOULD work.

Most people that get a dead board need to vent, and as such they are much more inclined to post about THAT

exactly.

it's human nature to blame the individual for incompetence, it makes us feel better when we succeed at something someone else had troubles with.

spend a little time on Newegg browsing the higher quality parts feedback threads vs the lower quality cheaper parts feedback threads and it become obvious that yes the DOA rate is higher in the low end and it's not just incompetence that is at play.

that isn't to say the DOA rate on a cheap part exceeds 5% but that it is higher than the higher quality parts that rarely have a DOA rate higher than 1%.