Puddle Jumper
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failure rate isn't judged by the number of total failures. it's a percentage of the total amount sold... If you're looking at absolute numbers of failed drives, then yeah what you're saying makes some sense, but people don't really look at it that way. It's all about percentages because it puts it on an even level. If OCZ had a 10% failure rate because 100 out of 1000 drives failed, it's the same rate as a company that sold 10 drives and 1 failed, and the percentage is what people look at because it gives context to the exact number of failures.
Exactly.
Which is exactly what is wrong with this world.
I'll make one final point on this then I'm done. Despite his "data" being shown, you still decided to get an OCZ drive. Check mate.
Yeah, measuring quality in a quantifiable manner should be a crime. We all should buy stuff based on emotion and marketing.
Making an informed decision is never a bad thing, I bought a sandforce drive after all of this came out (a Sandisk though) because at the time it was enough cheaper than a Samsung to make up for the inferior quality. That said with the Samsung 830 128gb at $125 there is no way I would buy anything else. The issue is when people want to pretend issues don't exist which would prevent someone from accurately weighing the pro's and cons for a product.