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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Difference between old & new ST-225 drives?
Message-ID: <5979@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 15:06:45 GMT
References: <5017@ubc-cs.UUCP> <426@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <426@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <5017@ubc-cs.UUCP>, dlo@idacom.cs.ubc.ca (Dennis Lo) writes:

>|  I've got one of the green ones and am wondering how much life I can
>|  expect from it.  

>Published MTBF is 100000 hours.

Are you sure? That works out to 11.4 years of 24 hour/day operation, or
50 years of normal business days! You probably mean 10,000 hours, for a five
year life.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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