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- From: weikl@ee5sy1.ilt.fhg.de (Dr.B.Weikl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu SCSI drives
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:14:38 GMT
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- marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes:
-
- >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 ?
- >
-
- We have Fujitsu EAGLE drives at our VAXes (M2351) running day and night
- since August 1985 without problem. This makes: 7.5 years * 360 days/year
- * 24 hours/day = 64800 hours. How to confirm 200000 hours? We have to wait
- still 15 and a half year. Or buy 200000 disks and wait one hour ? ;-)
-
-
- -- Bruno
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