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mean time before failure is given, but variance is missing
I have 8TB HDD WD Gold. Here they claim 2M MTBF (mean time before failure) hours. What is the statistical variance (estimated at least) of this data ?
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SSD drives lifetime [closed]
Some years ago when I was looking to buy an SSD drive, I remember reading about how SSD drives had low lifetime with frequent read/writes, so I backed off.
Now I see this in Specifications:
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Data safety: How error-prone are SSDs compared to HDDs
I recently bought an SSD (http://www.samsung.com/de/consumer/m/MZ-7TE250KW). When I tell this to other people, I always get warnings in reply: "SSDs highly error-prone. save your data on a magnetic ...
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Laptop HDD vs Desktop HDD
Recently my desktop HDD failed and I am considering replacing it with two laptop HDDs, 7200rpm, 16mb buffer in RAID 1.
I am not able to find anything relevant in regard to MTBF or performance for ...
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