[geeks] Fwd: [IP] Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
" 
" Thu, 08 Apr 2004 @ 15:40 +0000, Lionel Peterson said:
" 
" > I don't follow your math... NOT saying you are wrong, but further insight
" > appreciated.
" > 
" > If a drive has a MTBF of 100K hours, that comes out to what, about 400 24 hour
" > days, right? Now, some drives may fail immediately (DOA+1 hour), other drives
" > may last for 200K hours (giving a 100K hour mean), correct?
" 
" I think he meant to say 1,000,000 hours, and some drives are probably
" over that now.

i actually did mean 100kh, as i haven't followed disk stats that
closely.  1Mh only reinforces my arg though.
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