On 4/19/2013 11:47 AM, mathog wrote: >> My overall impression is that, when buying drives, the single piece of >> manufacturer provided data that >> best correlates with the actual expected life of the drive is the >> length of the warranty. Even that is little >> protection against a bad batch though.
Use AFR and warranty, ignore everything else. MTBF does not correlate at all against AFR, and AFR is an objective measure. >> >> Thanks, >> >> David Mathog >> [email protected] >> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
