Alan McKay wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni <tirloni at 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 > which is just about meaningless, unless you have a population of 1000s of drives under optimal conditions, then its a statistical mean. at that point in time, you can expect approximately half the drives to fail.