On Jul 8, 1:28*pm, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
Man at B&Q wrote:
On Jul 8, 1:37 am, "BigWallop" wrote:

Modern electronics are much more reliable than goods bought just ten years
ago, so the innards, the not moving or solid state parts, should go and go
and go in normal use. *Even if they are run hard 24 / 7 / 365. *They
shouldn't loose their quality at all, unless bashed about.

What a load of Wallops.

Read up on lead free solder and tin whiskers before posting about
reliability of modern electronics.

Those are not inherent problems..

No but they have caused quite serious reliability problems.


Then learn about endurance of consumer grade FLASH memory.

Which is fine as long as its not written to often. So fine for storing
system params: Less so as hard drive replacements.

Nor in some MP3 players.

I could also mention the Xbox debacle.

MBQ