On 24/06/2019 23:47, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:22:06 +0000 (UTC)
> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:43:10 +0100, Adrian wrote:
>>
>>> In message , David Higton
>>>  writes
>>>> At three years old, it's already reached the end of its life, so the
>>>> MTTF specification no longer applies.  It is (or should be!) up for
>>>> replacement already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Your disk is a mere youth at 18474 hours: the Hitachi disks I had that
>> died at a bit under 50K hours were much older than that: one was the
>
>  Hmm I have eight rather old (made in 2012) 2TB 3.5" SAS drives each
> with over 50K hours in my house NAS, none of them have yet reported so much
> as a correctable error.
>
50,000 hours is for average use.

Our Unix servers used to get thrashed and 20,000 was the point at which
we expected something to to look great.

A friend who thrashed a machine 24x7 (doing massive matrix computations)
use to get 7000 hours.

on a personal desktop I'd expect 100,000 hours


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