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Originally Posted by DaveNull
OWC does a lot of testing of the aftermarket hardware that they sell. If you go with one of their custom builds, they put it through all kinds of stress testing before you get it.
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Stress testing is completely unnecessary. All that does is shorten the life of the system.
Stress testing is really only good for determining the average life of a component by stress testing many of the exact same component and averaging the results. It's never been a very effective method of predicting when a single computer component will fail. There's rarely any "warning signs" from stress testing that would actually predict single component failure.
That would be equivalent to a car salesman putting a new car up on blocks and running it at 10k rpm for 24 hours just to see if something breaks, and then saying "Yep I'm pretty sure it's safe from further mechanical failure now." That's a fallacy.
It's ineffective and really hard on the system.