Re: MTBF: A bunch of bs

Peter wrote:
Imagine that 1M5 h is an average. To be of any significance, you need 

Maybe it doesn't help YOU.
If I had to chose between otherwise identical drives, one with 300,000 MTBF,
other with 1,500,000 MTBF; I would pick a second one. Even if that would be
for a single hard disk in my PC.



I'd pick the one with the longer warranty.

It's true that MTBF doesn't say much about a particular drive - for exactly the same reason that the observed lifetime of a single drive says little about the MTBF of that model.
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