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

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:34:56AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:

> MTBF doesn't tell the whole story.  You're assuming that failures are
> uniformly distributed, in a sense rather like radioactive decay: that
> the chance of a drive dying during a particular time interval depends
> on nothing but the size of that interval, whereas in reality it also
> depends on how far into the drive's service life that interval falls.

I have a Blue and White Macintosh G3 (original model) that only works
with older drives. There is a flaw in the IDE controller chip and the
fastest drive made that works with it is 20gig, anything newer is too
fast. :-(

In the year that I've had it, it's been through 4 hard disks. Not because
of anything wrong with the computer itself, but to get a hard disk, I
have to find one that's at least five years old and they all have been
used and then put on a shelf, which decreases the lifetime once they
get used again. 

Geoff.
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