David Brodbeck wrote:
Sure. As anyone who's ever had a couple of hard disks fail can attest,
MTBF numbers are mostly fiction.
Well, I can attest that you don't seem to know much about
statistics. ;-) ;-)
At one of my customers, 10,000s of disks are in use at the servers.
There MTBF numbers are reliable indicators of how much disks one has
to buy in advance to exchange the defect ones.
Of course, being a statstical measure, it doesn't tell at all which
disk will fail next, so it can only be used for purchasing decisions
and not for precautionary actions. See also the recent Google report
on that topic.
Joachim
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