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Mean Time Between Failure: A Misleading Spec
Author: Gabriel TorresDate: February 24, 2010 - 2:53 PM PST

MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failures. It’s a term that IT professionals use this number to predict the reliability of hardware devices, especially hard disk drives. But this idea is usually flawed. Here’s why.

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