David Brodbeck wrote:
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.
MTBF is essentially an average time, which means some will fail sooner and others later. It does not mean you'll never get a bad drive that fails much earlier than expected. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org