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The reliability of a hard-disk

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The reliability of a hard-disk drive is typically described in terms of a quantity called mean time between failures (MTBF). Although this quantity
is called a "time," the MTBF actually is measured in drive-hours per failure. If a disk farm contains 1000 drives, each of which has a 750,000
hour MTBF, which of the following best describes how often a drive failure will occur in that disk farm: once per thousand years, once per century, once per decade, once per year, once per month, once per week, once per day, once per hour, once per minute, or once per second? Mortality statistics indicate that, on the average, a U.S. resident has about 1 chance in 1000 of dying between ages 20 and 21 years. Deduce the MTBF hours for 20 year olds. Convert this figure from hours to years. What does this MTBF tell you about the expected lifetime of a 20 year old?
The manufacturer claims a I-million hour MTBF for a certain model of disk drive. What can you say about the number of years that one of those drives can be expected to last?

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a. 750,000 drive-hours per failure divided by 1000 drives gives 750 hours per failure—about 31 days or once per month.
b. The human-hours per failure is 8760 (hours in a year) divided by 0.001 failure, giving a value of 8,760,000 "hours" for the MTBF. 8760,000 hours equals 1000 years. This tells us nothing about the expected lifetime of a person of age 20.
c. The MTBF tells nothing about the expected lifetime. Hard disk drives are generally designed to have a lifetime of 5 years. If such a drive truly has a million-hour MTBF, it is very unlikely that the drive will fail during its expected lifetime.
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