I’ve had failure rates as high of new BD discs, even.
The US BD pressing plant shut down a while ago and the new ones are very hit or miss, I’ve gotten several that were heavily scratched or otherwise unreadable – brand new in sealed case, from the only NA factory.
Very interesting move, you really would think that a unified storage provider would scale very well, and hedges the business on both sides.
I’ve really liked WD, I exclusively use their enterprise HDDs and haven’t had a single failure (bar one caused by incorrect shipping) and their SSDs been similarly good offerings.
Honestly a 2% failure rate on CPU seems… high?
It’s just about the last component I’d look at when diagnosing issues owing to that, it’s usually: Storage, RAM, Motherboard, PSU, before I start giving a CPU side eye.
The only CPU I’ve seen go bad was an Intel one that static electricity on the USB somehow completely killed.
This is also me ignoring Intel’s recent manufacturing misstep that killed much of the 13-14th gen parts.
Further, US national electric code states that a continuous load (3+ hours) is de-rated to 80% ampacity, so we’re looking closer to 1400W.
The solution if you really need that much wattage in the US is to use a 240V circuit, dual pole 20A breakers are commonly available, Romex yellow is fine for 240V@20A, just gotta get a NEMA 6-20 outlet.