10 Oct
2009
10 Oct
'09
8:59 p.m.
At Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:44:54 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Alan McKay wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni tirloni@gmail.com wrote:
Can you get something like the average lifespan of the circuits in hours ?
HDs and other components should have published "MTBF" - Mean Time Between Failure
But they are never realistic in terms of actual life spans. They are computed from the failures across a large number of new components in a test environment.
Of course. "Mean", as used in "Mean Time Between Failure", is a *statisical* term, and is not a 'real' number.
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