It concluded that hard drive failure rate was much higher (by a factor of about fifteen times higher) than that expected based on mean time to failure (MTTF) information supplied by manufacturers.

Mean time between failure made easy A common way of measuring a design's product reliability is the mean time between failure (MTBF) calculation. Being able to accurately measure and report a ...

Mean time between failures (MTBF) and the related mean time to failure (MTTF) are measures of hardware reliability, usually expressed in hours. They indicate in statistical terms the working ...

One often-quoted measure of reliability is mean time between failures ... It’s a simple graph showing how products first go through a phase called “infant mortality” where the number of ...

Opinion: Research into the real-world reliability of hard disks in the data center now point to inflated MTBF (mean time between failures) numbers on vendors' spec sheets.