Which raises the question: why did Nissan design it to only pull 1KW from a slow enough 110V outlet when it was perfectly capable of delivering 1.5KW?

If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.

We just shoot them and then call the police. :-)

In Texas; you are actually required to call in the police now, instead of just the garbage pick-up company, when that happens?

... just remember that you have to empty a at least one 10 round pistol clip into the guy before you've hosed off five dollars worth of ammo.

And if you know those people you have also heard the stories about how ugly things got when the new accounting team forgot to pay the service contract

LOL, you know, I have never had an outage or problem like that from accountants forgetting to pay the bills.

Maybe your accountants suck? ;-)

But consumer hard drives are so much cheaper that it's not really cost effective anymore to buy Enterprise drives.

Do you actually do Enterprise Storage? Because I know people who do.

At the really high end, the machines automatically call home and report a fault to the vendor. The vendor then dispatches someone to replace the faulty bit within the SLA.

Disclaimer: Backblaze engineer here. I don't think all "commercial storage systems" get exactly the same "hammering". Some commercial systems are used to store data quietly for a long time (let's say online backup or shutterfly storage of photos), some commercial systems are hammered constantly (google's homepage search). I reject the concept that "enterprise" or "commercial" is a thing. You MUST look at the specific application. Some consumers use their hard drives quite a bit, some don't. Some corporations are hammering away at their drives, some are not.

90% of everything is crap, but at least with open source you can find out why instead of waiting for the developers who can't reproduce your problem.

Cars are disposable devices? I am sure my 95 Saturn and 88 Ford would love to be told that (with 255K and 150K miles on them, respectively. I drive ~80 miles on a work day).

>> more harsh environment than your desktop

Ya' mean like my server room?

Gotta remember...some of us do work in IT for a living. :)

That line is also a problem. The definition most people use for addiction is "won't stop using [substance] when I ask them to", not "is this even harming their quality of life"