Thread: Internal flash degrading: something to worry?
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2009-08-05 , 18:26
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Originally Posted by PowerUser View Post
Can I have simple math? Let's say, there is 5 failed devices. Sounds awful, right? But what if these were 5 out of 1000 devices within year? That's failure rate of 0.5% per year. Very good for complicated devices. And actually not awful but very great result. Surely, there will be 5 unhappy humans. And 995 happy ones. Overall result is good, then. And probably better than industry average.
Oh, sure, but what if those reporting the issue are only 10% of those having it? Suddenly your 0.5% goes to 5% which is pretty bad.
I don't know how many tablets nokia sold (they never disclosed the number), much less the number of failed screens (since I replaced mine myself, mainly because nokia didn't reply to my request for help, it wouldn't show up in nokia's statistics), but it's not very far-fetched assuming that the members of this forum are 10% (or even less) of all tablet users.
Going back to the original topic, due to the stated characteristics of nand flash (which I don't know if I should believe) it's more probable than something else (including the screen) will fail before the memory.