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MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation.; Full MTBF Definition >>

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Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12: Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12Thin Clients do offer many advantagesSome other hard data might be interesting, such as*total* electrical load up? down? (servers + clients)*total cost of ownership* up? down? (last time I looked, the costs would be less, but that was for an HP systemMTBF? up?...; Tags: Thin clients, cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, K12, MTBF, GOOD Question, virtualization, server, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-10-16
Mean Time Between Failure: Explanation and Standards: "Mean time between failure" is a reliability term used loosely throughout many industries and has become widely abused in some. Over the years the original meaning of this term has been altered which has led to confusion and cynicism. MTBF is largely based on assumptions and definition of failure and...; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Failure, Standards, MTBF, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2005-02-07
Field MTBF Numbers: What Do They Really Mean?: MTBF is an acronym for Mean Time Between Failures. In general, a higher MTBF number indicates a more reliable product. Beyond this simple definition, you’ll find a wide variety of special meanings. In the military/aerospace industries, MTBF is defined by a specific set of calculations. The formula for system longevity...; Tags: Liebert Corp., MTBF, Strategy, Management; White papers 2000-06-15

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Dell: How bad is it?: Dell: How bad is it?They're advertising is shot, tooThe holiday radio ads targeted at businesses are abysmal. Carolers singing about getting "trendy desktops?" Apparently they ditched the real ad agency and hired a bunch of people off the street who just watched the latest iteration of High School...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, NOW IT, Dell Computer Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-11-19
Where flash belongs: Where flash belongsTo replace floppy, CDs and DVDsFlash has very short write-life expectancy. So it's not suitable for hard disk replacement. If you have big capacicity flash, you won't be able to use to store many small files. It will burnt up the write limit quickly.So it will be usefule...; Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, SSD, IOPS; Discussion threads 2008-11-11

FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policy: FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policyThis is a surprise???Is anyone surprised that the government holds itself to a lower standard than anyone it regulates? Congress routinely exempts itself from laws that everyone else has to follow. Can you imagine the airlines being allowed to use such a policy on aircraft?...; Tags: Government, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Recruitment & Selection, Forcast, FAA; Discussion threads 2008-09-02
In-class computers vs. labs: In-class computers vs. labswhat happened to the "teaching"Your article left out the teaching aspect. When teaching to a group, via a full lab, isn't attention span better or at least better managed? Isn't individual progress to an assigned task more measurable?Didn't Dell have a program where 2-3 clusters of computers...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
A visit to the Microsoft Newseum: A visit to the Microsoft NewseumI AgreeWe all remember the Mac story!MS is all about packaging and marketing.Come on Paul...Microsoft has completely changed the landscape of IT FOREVER. I am in a constant upgrade cycle here. I have MCSEs and MCSDs working 365 days a year on upgrades. Our CFO...; Tags: Operating systems, ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Microsoft Newseum; Discussion threads 2008-06-18
High-end disks dead in 2 years: Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the beginning of the end for disk drives? What is a high-end hard drive? Unlike the...; Tags: Notebook, Disk, USB Flash Drive, Chip, PC Board, Notebook Disk, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-20
Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive: Western Digital have started shipping the company's fastest drive yet - the VelociRaptor. The VelociRaptor, model WD3000GLFS, is a 10,000RPM, 300GB drive. It differs from the existing Raptor models not only in the capacity (the largest Raptor has only 150GB of storage) but also in fact that...; Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Serial ATA, Games, Notebooks, Retail, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Notebook SSDs disappoint: Notebook SSDs disappointEee PC - OS makes a differenceOne of the problems when using the Eee PC with XP is the logging, writes to the registry, page filing, etc. that XP normally does on a conventional hard drive. Of course you can reduce some of these writes like turning off...; Tags: Notebooks, performance data, failure rate, SSD, Notebook SSD, Thanks Robin, notebook, Eee PC, hard drive, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-03-19
Does Apple's "Time Capsule" contain a server-grade hard drive? Does it matter?: The Register points to a series of photos on Flickr by an individual calling themselves Nakedmac which allegedly shows that the hard drive inside Apple's Time Capsule storage device is a hard drive designed for desktop PCs and notÂ for servers. That drive in...; Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Apple Inc., A7K1000, Storage, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-03
The+SSD+failure+debate: The+SSD+failure+debateMost SSD doom and gloom writers seem uninformedThey know one thing - that NAND and NOR have erase cycle endurance limitations. Then, they create a whole doom and gloom campaign around that one limitation. It's irresponsible technical journalism. Not only are SSD's super reliable, they are are future...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Notebooks, Storage, SSD; Discussion threads 2008-02-27
The SSD failure debate: To listen to some people talk about it, Solid State Drives SSDs â€“ like the 64GM model from Samsung that you can get in the new MacBook Air â€“ are doomed to fail. SSD is defined as "A disk drive that uses memory chips instead of rotating...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady; Blog posts 2008-02-27
What your disk drive isn't telling you: What your disk drive isn't telling youNo safe havenIt seems that our data simply have no safe place to reside anywhere. Hard disks are unsafe, DVD's are unsafe disk rot.....Come on, industry, give us a safe, reliable and enduring storage medium. How hard can it be?Greetz, Pjotr.Broken main page link,...; Tags: Storage, HARD DISKS, disk, disk drive, SCSI, RAID, file system; Discussion threads 2008-02-18
The day my iPhone touch screen died: The day my iPhone touch screen diedParts is Parts[url=http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/10/analyst-apple-iphone-screen-problems-may-get-worse-the-dreaded-dead-strip.html]FYI[/url]The linked article speaks for itself.Touch Screen Gotcha. It can be argued......whether touch screens are great technology advancement.But, when it comes to failure, well you are dead in the water. I've had a couple of issues with my Nokia N95...; Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Store; Discussion threads 2007-12-24
Are SSDs ready for prime time?: Are SSDs ready for prime time?what about...other metrics, both of which are nearand dear to most peoples' wallets?- capacity, in which HDDs have at least a 20:1advantage. 64 MB is not enough in the days of 160 GBiPods and 1 TB desktop HDDs.- $ for the device (not mentioned...; Tags: USB flash drive, hard drive, SSD, Hours Shock Resistance SSD; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Are SSDs ready for prime time?: A couple of colleagues and I got to talking about Solid State Disks SSDs recently. It went something like this: I'm contemplating swapping out the hard drive on a new MBP with an SSD. Space isn't a big issue for me - I'm only using 31GB on my current...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Solid State Disk, Disk, Hard Drive; Blog posts 2007-10-03
Weekend Project - Building two quad-core PCs: Weekend Project - Building two quad-core PCsWith the 10k HDD instead of a 7.2KI wonder what the performance advantage is these days for running your OS and applications on the faster drive. Will you get the chance to run some comparative benchmarks on this machine by loading your OS...; Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, Performance management, Operating systems, Raptor, quad-core, ATI Technologies Inc., desktop, operating system; Discussion threads 2007-08-31
Xbox repair process leaves gamers in a fix: Xbox repair process leaves gamers in a fixComes with...trying to be everything for everyone. It was a mistake for Microsoft to get into the gaming console market. That's only one of many mistakes they've made as a company over the past several years. Microsoft is a classic...; Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Coleco; Discussion threads 2007-08-03