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Subject: Re: TWL: Passing alarms through computer
From: Gregory Nicholls (gnicholls@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 19:47:53 EST
You are kidding right ?? Hard drive MTBF's are now routinely measured in x
hundred thousand hours (eg 300,000hrs for several commercial grade drives). That's
roughly 34yrs. My MTBF is likely less than that.
G.
"Mike Harrington (by way of Georgs Kolesnikovs)" wrote:
> I totally agree with Larry. There is so much that you can do with your
> computer in terms of logging and prediction, but I relying on it as the
> primary alarm system is a bad idea. MTBF for hard drives and other
> components on the laptop just are not high enough yet.
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