This is more of a curiosity question than anything. I got to thinking the
other day, how do they figure out the Mean Time Before Failure of a
harddrive. If you break out your calculator, most major manufactureres are
30 years and upwards! For example, Western Digital lists a lot of their
drives as 350,000 hourse(350,000 hours/24 hours in a day/365 days in a year
= 39.95 years!!). I REALLY don't see this as at all possible for actual use.
Anyone have any little insights on this?
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Adam Gonsman
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