On Wednesday 12 July 2006 20:11, mos wrote: > To get the MTBF estimate, the manufacturer will power on 100 drives (or > more) and time to see when the first one fails. If it fails in 1000 hours, > then the MTBF is 100x1000hrs or 100,000 hours.
I don't know much statistics, but I do know that that estimate would not just be inaccurate - it would be absurdly wrong. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
