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MTBF

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(Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation.

MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures


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Drive reliability is usually measured using two specification points: MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and Bit Error rate, (the rate at which a drive will make an error).
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Trazar-manufactured Automatic Impedance Matching (AIM) networks provide MTBF in excess of 40 months.
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This value directly coincides with the newest parallel SCSI drives that are reporting the same MTBF values of 1.
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