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%)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.
- MSI 2,44% (contre 2,54%)
- ASUS 2,49% (contre 3,05%)
- ASRock 2,71% (contre 2,21%)
- Kingston 0,30% (contre 0,37%)The HDD is likely one of the most critical components in your computer, in this category Maxtor received the best ranking:
- 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%)
- Maxtor 1,04% (contre 1,73%)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.
- 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%)
- Intel 0,59%
- Corsair 2,17%
- Crucial 2,25%
- Kingston 2,39%
- OCZ 2,93%