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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Difference between old & new ST-225 drives?
Summary: What I said, not what you meant
Message-ID: <470@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 19:15:10 GMT
References: <5017@ubc-cs.UUCP> <426@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <5979@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <5979@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
|  In article <426@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|  
|  >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.

Seagate mentioned that the MTBF on the new model went from 50000 to
100000 hours, and the 4096 series from 40000 to 50000 hours. I have no
way of verifying that the figures from Seagate are correct, but the
figures I quoted are indeed the ones which Seagate provided.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon