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On 2/20/07, David Brodbeck
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.
I don't know about that, it is amazing how often disk drives fail shortly after the warranty expires. 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. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org