[geeks] [JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer]

Tue Jan 17 08:16:12 CST 2006

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 05:08, Scott Howard wrote:
> OK, but consider this for a moment...
> 
> Hard disks have an MTBF of about 1 million hours  (give or take a bit).
> 
> So if you go out and buy an iPod and connect it to your computer, the odds
> of the hard disk dying within the first hour are about 1 in a million.

No, see, she probably had some loud or really percussion-heavy music, and when it went onto her hard drive, the extra vibrations induced the drive to fail.  

Obviously, the iPod software should have muted the sound volume on her PC's sound card while it was loading...

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--Patrick