Greg Freemyer wrote:
I don't know about that, it is amazing how often disk drives fail shortly after the warranty expires.
I seem to recall the MTBF figure was usually substantially longer than the warranty. I was going to verify that, but no one seems to quote MTBF anymore for hard disks -- instead they quote error rate, start/stop cycles, and annualized failure rate.
Actually, the Google paper on this is very interesting. http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf
To grossly simplify, commodity disk drives fail at a rate of roughly 10% per year starting in the 3rd year, independent of activity, temperature, etc.
And yet Seagate claims an annualized failure rate of only 0.34% for their drives. Someone's skewing their figures, and I suspect it isn't Google. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org