On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:00:15AM -0400, 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. The savings in return processing and
>customer goodwill would surely justify the electricity they'd use.
Wouldn't help if the reason for the infant mortality is bad handling
between the factory and the rack. One thing that I did question in the
CMU study was the lack of infant mortality--I've definately observed it,
but it might just be that my UPS guy is clumsier than theirs.
Mike Stone
