<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>yeah, clearly there is much fibbing going on in the world of hard drive sales.</DIV><DIV>far as I'm concerned, short HD life spans is deliberate..why else would something that runs so hot be built without a fan?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 14, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Bill Bauldry wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Hola Group,</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">I’ve been amused for a long time by manufacturer’s claims for a hard drive’s `Mean Time Before Failure` (MTBF) stats used in product data sheets. A top high-end drive company lists 1,400,000 hours MTBF on a new SATA drive. It doesn’t take rocket science to analyze this claim:</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> 1,400,000 hours = 58,333.3 days = 159.8 years!</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">I’ve never met a hard drive yet that would outlast me by that much...</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Regards,</SPAN><BR style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Bill</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>