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knightry
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Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor

And what reliability!

quote:
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS is more reliable than (collecting data, check back soon!)% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
*sigh*
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permalink · 2008-04-21 18:22:45 · Reply to this

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Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor

said by knightry See Profile :

And what reliability!

quote:
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS is more reliable than (collecting data, check back soon!)% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
*sigh*
Well the drive is new, give it time.
permalink · 2008-04-21 19:30:41 · Print · Reply to this

knightry
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Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor

My point is that the page shouldn't have been included before they had any numbers. Leave it out of the report for now, include it once you have the data. It's like publishing a researching paper and leaving the Results Conclusion section as [insert results and conclusions here].
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Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor

I agree, highly improper. If scientific workers did things like that, they'd get fired.
permalink · 2008-04-22 02:16:46 · Reply to this

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Re: Western Digital VelociRaptor

said by signmeuptoo See Profile :

I agree, highly improper. If scientific workers did things like that, they'd get fired.
But then we are not talking about scientific web site and probably makes it easier to maintain as AthlGrond alludes to I think.
permalink · 2008-04-22 14:22:39 · Reply to this

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said by knightry See Profile :

My point is that the page shouldn't have been included before they had any numbers. Leave it out of the report for now, include it once you have the data. It's like publishing a researching paper and leaving the Results Conclusion section as [insert results and conclusions here].
They use an automated system of compiling reliability reports so that they don't have to update their reviews later when the information becomes available. I agree that they have a clumsy way of presenting the lack of information.

Since the reliability information isn't the primary reason people are reading a review of a new hard drive, it could hardly be likened to the main conclusions of a research paper. My analogy would be that it's like a computer program where there is a menu option that doesn't work until they have released the first (or second, or...) update for the software.

They added that section to their reviews after the IBM Death Desk Star fiasco, and I don't think that they've updated the way it works since then.
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