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- From: gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Scott Braley)
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu SCSI drives
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:28:35 GMT
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- marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes:
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- >I was browsing the Computer Shopper looking at SCSI drives
- >and saw an ad that claimed that the Fujitsu ~520 Mb SCSI HD
- >in the picture had a 200,000 MTBF rating. Can anybody
- >confirm or discredit this claim ?
-
- Well, at the Fujitsu testing labs, they take a drive and spend 22.8 years running it until
- it fails. Then they market it. So, way back in 1970 they developed this drive and started
- testing it. Now they market it as 200,000 Hours MTBF. :)
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- -Scott
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