It used to be, that if you knew the right people at IBM, you could get a printout of the actually in-field observed MTBF of all their components.
That database is why they managed to respond to the infamous "legionnaires disease" in one of their DASD units, where pretty much all shipped drives died within a very narrow range of power-on hours, without running into any major lawsuits for incompetence. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
