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Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up
- From: David Brodbeck <gull@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:39:27 -0800
- Message-id: <45DB6A8F.2090902@xxxxxxx>
Stevens wrote:
> Auto manufacturers try to predict how their interiors and their paints will
> last, too, but until both are subjected to the Texas sun they are only
> guessing. The North has salt that kills cars; in the South it is the sun.
> Only when they obtain empirical data can they be sure and that data takes
> a long time to gather. The same goes for optical media manufacturers. Any
> longevity rating is a SWAG, at best, which is the reason for my cynical
> view.
>
Sure. As anyone who's ever had a couple of hard disks fail can attest,
MTBF numbers are mostly fiction.
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> Auto manufacturers try to predict how their interiors and their paints will
> last, too, but until both are subjected to the Texas sun they are only
> guessing. The North has salt that kills cars; in the South it is the sun.
> Only when they obtain empirical data can they be sure and that data takes
> a long time to gather. The same goes for optical media manufacturers. Any
> longevity rating is a SWAG, at best, which is the reason for my cynical
> view.
>
Sure. As anyone who's ever had a couple of hard disks fail can attest,
MTBF numbers are mostly fiction.
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