From: Stuart Tedford <stuart.tedford_at_piresearch.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:25:13 +0100

> From: BlueChip [mailto:cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net]
> Don't panic about the hdd, what was the quote 200,000 bad
> shut-downs before a problem may occur.
>
It was 20,000 but I guess the real point was that it WILL cause a drive to
fail. And remember that this was an average, so someones drive may fail
after 40,000 bad shut-downs, and your drive may fail after one bad shutdown,
an avearge of 20,000 ;-) (I know this isn't exactly how MTTF works but it is
a good example to illustrate my point [MTTF = Mean Time To Failure]).

Stu.
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