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09/21/05 23:52
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#101334 - Reliability
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Farshid Jafari Harandi said:
... these new HDD's are not much reliable.

You've had one hard drive crash in 3 years, so you conclude that "these new HDD's are not much reliable." That is an entirely unwarranted conclusion, and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the whole concept of "reliability"

"Reliability" is a statistical measure and, therefore, tells you precisely nothing about any specific individual unit. Statistics are all to do with populations - not individuals.

Statistics just tell you that 99.9% (or whatever) of hard drives will not fail before the PC is junked - they do not tell you whether you are one of the unlucky 0.1% who will suffer a failure. :-(

Of course, none of this is of any help to you at this precise moment - but that's statistics for you, I'm afraid. :-(

List of 24 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Maxtor HDD Crash :(            01/01/70 00:00      
   STOP immediately!            01/01/70 00:00      
      these things teaches a good lesson...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Backup backup backup            01/01/70 00:00      
            Scheduler provided by the OS            01/01/70 00:00      
            Only half the story            01/01/70 00:00      
               True            01/01/70 00:00      
            on backup (and restore)            01/01/70 00:00      
   Good luck.            01/01/70 00:00      
      Thanks            01/01/70 00:00      
         Mecca            01/01/70 00:00      
   why MCU?            01/01/70 00:00      
      I'll try it            01/01/70 00:00      
         seen a small light in the dark            01/01/70 00:00      
            'PowerMax' Log file            01/01/70 00:00      
   ..but for the grace of (deity of choice)            01/01/70 00:00      
      Heat problems?            01/01/70 00:00      
      That works some time            01/01/70 00:00      
         magnetic flux            01/01/70 00:00      
            you said your data been overwriten            01/01/70 00:00      
               The effect of cooling can also be that a            01/01/70 00:00      
               I didn't said that for sure            01/01/70 00:00      
   Reliability            01/01/70 00:00      
      I said this because of            01/01/70 00:00      

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