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on Sept 4, 2009
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Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes ...
How is MTBF derived? He claims "1.2 million hours normalized on 40 degrees", that's almost 140 years. It seems to me that it's just some extrapolated test statistic being bandied about with no relevance to real world conditions.
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