On 09/04/2012 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time >between failure) and a 5 year warranty. >Note that MTBF of 1.2 Mhrs (137 years?!?) is the*vendor's estimate*.
Baloney check. 1.2 Mhrs does not mean that the device is expected to last 137 years. It means that if you have 1.2 million devices in front of you on a test bench, you would expect one device to fail in one hour. -T
