Short life of Hard Discs

[Pete77]

I'm sure an intelligent man like yourself knows that

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Careful with those unintended complements when I'm sure that you probably meant to say long winded and argumentative boffin or something similar

[Tcm2007]

And you'd exclude replacement drives as that would be measuring an entirely different brand of disk, rendering the research pointless.

Not if one established the brand and model of the replacement drive and also ran some statistics on how well they had lasted.

You'd effectively be doing research on each brand & model though, so the numbers for each one would be tiny and very unlikely to tell you anything.

Of course I know that would clearly not be acceptable to you...

Also I am sure that a hard bitten commercial man like you ...

One day Pete you'll learn to be less obvious when trying to change the subject of an argument you are losing by turning things personal.

[Tcm2007]

I'm sure an intelligent man like yourself knows that

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Careful with those unintended complements when I'm sure that you probably meant to say long winded and argumentative boffin or something similar

Sarcasm detection not your strong point I guess.