[NCLUG] suggestions on building a box

[S. Luke Jones]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:29:59PM -0700, Matt Rosing wrote:
> >The advantage to the burn-in is to limit the chance of DOA.
> 
> Uh, if the component is DoA, you probably don't want to run a burn-in on
> it.  You're safe just sending it back and asking for a new one.  Chances
> of a DoA component suddenly coming back alive on you are ... slim.  ;-)

I think what Matt was thinking of was "bathtub failure" rather than DOA.
The idea is that the failure curve looks like a bathtub: high on either
end and flat in the middle. If you buy a monitor and it doesn't fail in
the first two days, then you're probably good for five years. Nothing
you can do about the far end, but who wants a five year old monitor? The
key thing is to get the system safely past the near end.

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