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Study: Hard Drive MTBF Ratings Highly Exaggerated
Tue, March 16, 2010
Yes it’s dated 2007, but I just found it. So here it is.
Carnegie–Mellon studied thousands upon thousands of drive in all sorts of situations, temperatures, etc.
The short of it is that the MTBF ratings of virtually all of them were overrated. How much? Glad you asked.
According to Carnegie researchers, manufacturer MTBF ratings are highly overrated. Take for example the Seagate Cheetah X15 series, which has a MTBF rating of 1.5 million hours. This equates to roughly over 171 years of constant service before problems. Carnegie’s researchers said however that customers should expect a more reasonable 9 to 11 years. Interestingly, real world tests in the study showed a consistent average failure of about six years.
Overrated enough for you?
It’s an interesting read. So check out the full piece here.
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