MTBF is the most widely misunderstood concept in consumer storage. There's something better: AFR. Here's what AFR means and a handy MTBF to AFR conversion table. The 200 year drive I often see forum ...

The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry is evolving to emphasize ways to enhance performance and reduce costs. The traditional approach of using central or string inverters (Fig. 1) with the highest ...

Data sheets for hard drives have always included a specification for reliability expressed in hours: commonly known as MTBF (mean time between failures), or sometimes the mean time to failure. Same ...

It’s a cruel world out there in the data center. Nothing lasts forever, especially not mechanical devices with fast-moving parts, such as disk drives and printers. It would be very useful if we could ...

Mean time between failures (MTBF) may be one of the more familiar terms seen in datasheets, yet there is still a widespread misunderstanding of the term and its application. Consequently, some ...

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Two common asset management metrics whose relevance has grown in importance even as new analytic technologies such as predictive maintenance have emerged are “mean time to repair” (MTTR) and “mean ...

“The MTBF and MTTR of broadband connections are too high, so even if they are lower cost and higher bandwidth, I can’t afford to use them.” “MPLS provides me with SLAs; Internet connections don’t.” ...

When comparing specifications among a range of similarly featured video surveillance cameras, NVRs or monitors, it can be difficult to ascertain which of the devices truly has the best performance and ...