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Following your logic: 100 drives - failure every 10,000 hours 10 drives - failure every 100,000 hours 1 drive - failure every 1,000,000 hours... How is this

Following your logic: 100 drives - failure every 10,000 hours 10 drives - failure every 100,000 hours 1 drive - failure every 1,000,000 hours... How is this not expected lifetime? [edit: split lines]

barrkel 7y ago
The mean rate of failures over time may not be constant, but it may have a mode for an expected life time window. This modal mean rate of failure is what's being described, I reckon. It would be nice to know the time window, but I'd expect it to be somewhere in the 5 to 10 year range.