Do OCUK think these statistics are about right, judging by thier failure rates on computure hardware failure.
Guru3D - http://www.guru3d.com/news.html#12745
The data originates from a large French e-tailer, it covers returns created before October 2010 for hardware sold between October 1, 2009 and April 1, 2010. The brand failure rates are compiled using a minimum sample of 500 sales, while model failure rates are calculated using a minimum sample of 100 sales.
In the motherboard market there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between manufacturers:
Gigabyte 2,33% (contre 2,36%)
MSI 2,44% (contre 2,54%)
ASUS 2,49% (contre 3,05%)
ASRock 2,71% (contre 2,21%)
The memory market shows quite a different story, especially OCZ dropped the ball as its failure rate increase more than doubled compared to the last report.
Kingston 0,30% (contre 0,37%)
Crucial 0,93% (contre 0,78%)
Corsair 1,41% (contre 1,66%)
G.Skill 2,73% (contre 1,53%)
OCZ 6,76% (contre 2,76%)
The HDD is likely one of the most critical components in your computer, in this category Maxtor received the best ranking:
Maxtor 1,04% (contre 1,73%)
Western Digital 1,45% (contre 0,99%)
Seagate 2,13% (contre 2,58%)
Samsung 2,47% (contre 1,93%)
Hitachi 3,39% (contre 0,92%)
SSD failure rates are also listed and although you usually hear that SSDs are more durable than HDDs the numbers show a different story. Only Intel SSDs seem to score significantly better than HDDs.
Intel 0,59%
Corsair 2,17%
Crucial 2,25%
Kingston 2,39%
OCZ 2,93%
Guru3D - http://www.guru3d.com/news.html#12745
The data originates from a large French e-tailer, it covers returns created before October 2010 for hardware sold between October 1, 2009 and April 1, 2010. The brand failure rates are compiled using a minimum sample of 500 sales, while model failure rates are calculated using a minimum sample of 100 sales.
In the motherboard market there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between manufacturers:
Gigabyte 2,33% (contre 2,36%)
MSI 2,44% (contre 2,54%)
ASUS 2,49% (contre 3,05%)
ASRock 2,71% (contre 2,21%)
The memory market shows quite a different story, especially OCZ dropped the ball as its failure rate increase more than doubled compared to the last report.
Kingston 0,30% (contre 0,37%)
Crucial 0,93% (contre 0,78%)
Corsair 1,41% (contre 1,66%)
G.Skill 2,73% (contre 1,53%)
OCZ 6,76% (contre 2,76%)
The HDD is likely one of the most critical components in your computer, in this category Maxtor received the best ranking:
Maxtor 1,04% (contre 1,73%)
Western Digital 1,45% (contre 0,99%)
Seagate 2,13% (contre 2,58%)
Samsung 2,47% (contre 1,93%)
Hitachi 3,39% (contre 0,92%)
SSD failure rates are also listed and although you usually hear that SSDs are more durable than HDDs the numbers show a different story. Only Intel SSDs seem to score significantly better than HDDs.
Intel 0,59%
Corsair 2,17%
Crucial 2,25%
Kingston 2,39%
OCZ 2,93%
