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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: A. DUMAS
date: 2018-12-11 22:21:00
subject: Re: MP3 Player for large

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> [*] 1,000,000 hours MTBF has to be pure sales-inspired hype since no disk
> drive has ever been test run for anything like that: hard disks were only
> invented 65 years ago while a million hours is a little over 114 years!

I think they calculate it as: test 1000 drives and 1 fails at t = 1000 h.

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