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Re: [opensuse] Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [ Was: About Backing Up]
  • From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:20:10 -0800
  • Message-id: <200702201720.10272.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:07, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 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.

Which is more specific information and much more informative than a
lumped MTBF number.


> ...


RRS
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