I'm wondering how this number was arrived at though. Does it include the fact that most people are not going to need to use the 4 3gb/s SATA ports? This would mean the failure rate for those that do require them would be much higher.
Wanted to upgrade since my current system is quite slow relatively, however buying now could result in a long turn around for RMA and shipping costs (compounded with the fact I'm not in the US).
One would assume the failure rate would be for a port that's actually used. I got the impression that heavily used ports had a higher chance of failing than those that were used little.