FEATURED Hardware Failure rates (2013 Edition)

[EarthDog]

In the past I have posted some links with Hardware failure rates from an overseas company. The latest data below is from 10/13.


Source: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-1/taux-retour-composants-9.html

This will need translated as it was not updated on their English site...

Motherboards


- Gigabyte 1.43% (against 1.19%)
- MSI 1.83% (against 3.05%)
- ASUS 1.86% (against 1.79%)
- ASRock 2.09% (against 2.09 %)


If we look more particularly at the rates observed on motherboards based on socket 1155, we get the following numbers:

- 1.88% MSI
- 2.01% ASUS
- 2.44% Gigabyte
- 3.51% ASRock

In terms of the big picture, only four models have a returns rate of over 5%:

- 5.05% ASRock 970 Extreme3 ​
- 6.19% MSI X79A-GD45
- 6.08% ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ​​
- 6.06% 970 ASRock Pro3

Power Supplies



- Fortron / FSP Group 0.49% (against 0.99%)
- BeQuiet 0.61% (against 1.15%)
- Antec 1.33% (against 1.23%)
- Cooler Master 1.52% ( against 0.98%)
- Seasonic 1.6% (against 2.36%)
- Thermaltake 1.87% (against 1.98%)
- Akasa 1.92% (N / A)
- Corsair 1.96% ( against 2.18%)
- Cougar 2.41% (N / A)

Highest return rates...

- Cougar ST-350 4.86%
- Corsair CX600 V2 4.76%
- Thermaltake SP-550MPCBEU 4.46%
- Corsair CX500 V2 4.19%
- Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 850 4.13%

RAM


- Kingston 0.20% (against 0.20%)
- Crucial 0.46% (against 0.39%)
- G.Skill 0.90% (against 0.95%)
- Corsair 1.08% (against 1 , 18%).

Highest return rates...

- 4.41% Corsair XMS 4GB (2x2) DDR3 1333 CL9
- 4.14% Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4) DDR3 1333 CL9
- 3.63% Corsair Value Select 8GB DDR3 1333 CL9
- 2.73% Corsair Mac Memory SO-DIMM 8GB (2x4) DDR3 1066 CL7
- 2.67% Corsair Vengeance SO-DIMM 16GB (2x8) DDR3 1600 CL10

GPUs


- PNY 0.94% (against 1.32%)
- MSI 1.38% (against 1.81%)
- Gainward 1.61% (against 1.27%)
- Zotac 1.70% (N / A)
- ASUS 1.81% (against 1.69%)
- Gigabyte 1.84% (against 1.54%)
- Sapphire 3.15% (against 3.51%)

Highest return rates...

- 12.67% Sapphire Radeon HD 7850
- 7.44% Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 OC V2
- 7.41% Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 OC V1
- 7.02% Sapphire HD 7950 With Boost (11196-16)
- 6.09% ASUS HD7750-DCSL-1GD5
- 5.82% Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 V1
- 5.65% Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 V2 - 5.30 Gainward GeForce GTX 670%

HDDs


- Seagate 0.95% (against 1.44%)
- Hitachi 1.16% (against 2.40%)
- Western 1.19% (against 1.55%)
- Toshiba 1.54% (against 1.15 %)

2 TB drives:
- 9.64% Seagate Constellation ES 9.64% ST2000NM0011
- 3.38% Western Digital Caviar RE4 WD2003FYYS
- 2.36% Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003
- 1.45% Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2
- 1 45% Western Digital Red WD20EFRX
- 1.38% Seagate SV35 ST2000VX000
- 1.35% Western Digital Green WD20EZRX
- 1.12% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST2000DM001
- 1.09% Western Digital AV-GP WD20EURS
- 0.96% Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX
- 0.83% Western Digital RE WD2000FYYZ And for 3TB:
- 1.99% Western Digital Red WD30EFRX
- 1.48% Western Digital Green WD30EZRX
- 1.29% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001

3TB

- 1.99% Western Digital Red WD30EFRX
- 1.48% Western Digital Green WD30EZRX
- 1.29% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001

SSDs

- Samsung 0.28% (against 0.05%)
- Intel 0.63% (against 0.37%)
- Kingston 1.00% (N / A)
- Corsair 1.88% (against 1.61%)
- Crucial 2.26% (against 1.12%)
- OCZ 2.27% (against 6.64%)

Those over 4%

- 11,19% OCZ Vector 128 Go
- 9,30% OCZ Vector 256 Go
- 5,11% Crucial V4 64 Go
- 4,92% Crucial M4 512 Go
- 4,41% Kingston HyperX 3K 120 Go

Overall


- Motherboard 1.9% (against 1.99%)
- Power 1.5% (against 1.45%)
- Memory .76% (against 0.81%)
- Graphics 2.1% (against 2.13%)
- Hard 1.07% (against 1.53%)
- SSD 1.27% (against 3.27%)