PC Components Failure Rates - Dec 2010

[Bigchrome]

If you're killing all of those power supplies, you're doing something wrong. It's not the supplies.

You'd think that, but I'm fairly sure I did nothing to kill them, and the house's electronics are fairly solid.

Perhaps something is wrong with your house's power lines...

There's no such thing as problems with electicity supply for the most part in ireland. Nothing else electronic in our house has died... pretty much ever actually.

Along with that my friends got: 3 600w seasonics and a 700w FSP at the same time. 2 of the seasonics are alive still and the fsp is dead. 50% failure rate after 5 years.

[Bobsama]

Perhaps something is wrong with your house's power lines...

This seems far more likely. Maybe just this outlet is wired incorrectly, but at least 110Vac Seasonic units seem to work fine.

Anyways, other than 1 manufacturing problem (with a recall/replacement) with, IIRC, X-650 & X-750 Gold's when they were new, Seasonic has basically been rock solid for years. In fact, they're my go-to brand for reliable PSU's.

[DTU_XaVier]

I use Hitachi HDD's, have had two for about 4 years now, no failures... OCZ RAM, 4 sticks, 2 years... I guess I'm just lucky

Best Regards

[Buckeye]

Where's EVGA?

Was just going to post that.

[andos]

Why do they list Maxtor?

Maxtor was bought by Seagate in '06.

[BrowncoatGR]

Not sure how much has changed since my experience of seasonic psus but they seem like one of the worst to me!

My: 600W seasonic died in 2 months, second 600W seasonic lasted 1 month, moved on to 700W FSP Epsilons which were seasonic i think, and had 4 die, the longest lasting 4 months. I eventually gave up after the final one exploded 6 inches from my face and got a 1KW Enermax galaxy. After plugging in a modular cable to that it died too The next 1kw galxy I got after that has lasted me 4 years with 0 issues as of today

If anything these failure rates seem extremely low compared to what I've experienced! The failure rate for crucial ballistix memory that I've had (probably 10+ kits) is around 90%

FYI FSP Epsilons are made by FSP not Seasonic. In fact all FSP PSUs are. They're one of the biggest OEMs. Though as many suggested already when so many different PSUs have issues in your system something else is causing them to break. You should really have the wiring in your house checked. I must say i'm surprised by both the Seasonic and Corsair failure rate although the sample is so small it's impossible to draw any real conclusions about hardware reliability.

[Bigchrome]

This seems far more likely. Maybe just this outlet is wired incorrectly, but at least 110Vac Seasonic units seem to work fine.

Anyways, other than 1 manufacturing problem (with a recall/replacement) with, IIRC, X-650 & X-750 Gold's when they were new, Seasonic has basically been rock solid for years. In fact, they're my go-to brand for reliable PSU's.

My computer was in 4 different rooms in 2 houses (we moved house) in the time the seasonic and the fsps died, so that's definitely out. I had heard seasonic were the most reliable aswell and that's why I got one. As I recall the reviews on newegg after I got it showed lots of people to be having problems. If you check reviews for m12 based units (xfx 850w for example) you will find that a multitude of people are experiencing whining/doa problems. Imo seasonic are for reliability.

[445533]

I'm using an Antec PSU that's based off a Seasonic unit.

Kigston tends to make alot of low end value memory that is rarely overclocked. XFX seem to be very popular graphics cards for the extreme crowd.

[Pontos]

I've had three MSI mobos die on me, one of them as soon as one year after bought. One Asus mobo after 9 years (The performance in the last few years was quite low though, regardless of the OS state), and one Gigabyte after like 3 years.

You can be sure I'll never buy another MSI mobo...

[saint-francis]

Why do they list Maxtor?

Maxtor was bought by Seagate in '06.

That's why they have the lowest failure rates. They can't fail if they don't exist in the first place.

[Hell Hound]

Msi here still going strong almost 4yrs,same for the 8gb ocz sticks.

Where's biostar and Ecs and a-data and G-skill.

[FU1G0R]

The data regarding HDD vs SSD failure rate is already being discussed here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=263454


Wow, OCZ memories suck big time

Every time I've had experiences with OCZ is Always a Bad experience

-unstable
-DOA
-or simply a bad quality poor performing product and not stable / compatible ....

this has been around 4 times .... no ocz for me no more never ever till the end of time

ohhh and the ocz power supplies .... you better get the worst generic power supply, it'll be better than the 700w one that foked my hdd and board when it just pooped out of nowhere deadly blue / white smoke ....

im in guatemala so no warranties, the actual return shipping of the product costs more than the product itself

yikes

[turbox997]

This data is to be taken lightly with a grain of salt.

I agree with others when they speculate that overclocking should be considered, many OCZ ram kits are sold factory overclocked vs plain stock Kingston ram kits.

I'm also shocked at their results for HDD's, and I think it's hard to really survey it accurately, HDD makers seem to be rather inconsistent with each new platter technology, like Seagate and WD for example.. old school 7200.9 HDD's were rather reliable, latter ones were not, WD seemed to be pretty solid with their last generation drives, but their new ones (2TB Blacks) seem to have a lot of complaints on reviews.

[FU1G0R]

Im not that much talking about these charts just saw the chance to offer my experience with ocz, i have a lot of experience with hardware since 1996 and all the hardware that has failed me since has been that brand

can i be so unlucky or is it the plain truth ?

[Death^Dread]

This makes a lot of sense, considering Seasonic is the OEM for some of the companies with better reliability than them. Pretty sure they make Antec and Corsair's PSUs, or at least some of them.

[BeepBeep2]

Maxtor has the lowest failure rates? This can't be right.

Considering Maxtor is a division of Seagate it makes perfect sense.

[stangracin3]

Considering Maxtor is a division of Seagate it makes perfect sense.

you guys are talking about 2 different maxtor's

beep he was talking about before seagate bought out maxtor

you are thinking about after seagate bought out maxtor

[445533]

That's why they have the lowest failure rates. They can't fail if they don't exist in the first place.

It's a percentage. If there's less of them, the failure rate should still be the same.

[WaterFlex]

It is pron, this is bull to compare TT and Seasonic PSUs

[biohead]

[BeepBeep2]

you guys are talking about 2 different maxtor's

beep he was talking about before seagate bought out maxtor

you are thinking about after seagate bought out maxtor

But the one he's talking about no longer applies? Maxtor was aquired by Seagate in 2006...only in the last month or so has it been defunct...

[sin0822]

I think it also depends on how many units are bought.

I believe the gigabyte less failure because you see not so many complaints and failures.

The seasonic doesn't make sense because They make most of the PSUs around.

OCZ i believe 100%. I have bought 4 things OCZ in the past year 2 went back dead and 2 were exchanged because they didn't work like advertised.

[1ke]

From a statistics standpoint, if we assume each company produces well over 10 million units annually and take a generous 95% confidence, they would need to have a minimum sample size of at least 385 for each company before the test is considered valid. With a sample size of 100, like they used, the margin of error is 9.8% meaning that 90% (probability) of the data actually reflects true failure rates of the product brands.

Also, I have had a bad corsair power supply.

[mnewxcv]

wont be getting ocz ram I guess

[lkiller123]

Wow, really?

Seasonic and OCZ fails the most; that can't be right!
Maxtor?!