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