BL> I don't understand the amazing improvement in motor reliability
 BL> over the last few years, not only in hard drives by VCRs too.
 BL> They hardly ever fail!

 RG> I don't know where you get this idea from

  I got it from the returns of a major service operation.

 RG> but next to belts and other rubber parts, the motors in VCR's
 RG> would be the next most common part to fail. If anything, the
 RG> motors in the newer machines are failing far more, and far
 RG> sooner than those in the older machines.

  I was thinking of the spinning head when I wrote that, as analogous
to the hard drive. I don't know your service operation, but Palsonic
sell 20,000 VCR a year and fix them all under warranty plus probably
half of them through their life. The initial failure rate is less than
2% per annum (about the same as Dave stated for the hard drive) and
the head assembly would not be 10% of that.

  To me, that's reliable... a mtbf of 1,000,000 hours.

  But I understand that all techs think everything they fix is a heap
of shit, that they don't make them as good as they used to (in spite
of all evidence to the contrary), and in particular not as good as the
Hoonomatic Vc11234-rt-3A that was the best (whatever) ever made, and
that the entire world would stop if they didn't keep servicing junk
that should have been scrapped three years ago.

Regards
Bob
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