[Beowulf] Are disk MTBF ratings at all useful?

Alex Chekholko alex.chekholko at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 16:03:38 PDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:
> How do they come up with the MTBF values for disks anyway?  Clearly it
> is not based on watching a large
> sample of disks for countless years!


Hi David,

How would you do it?

Regards,
Alex



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