[geeks] [JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer]

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> But, for every drive that lasts 300,000 hours, doesn't that mean there is 
> one that fails in the first hour, and another drive that lasts 600,000 
> hours?

Actually, like many electronic devices, hard disks tend to fail on a
bathtub curve:  there's a spike of initial failures, then very few for a
long time unless abused, then the failure rate climbs again.


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