| The
projected life span of hard drives is usually expressed as MTBF or
Mean Time Between Failures. The MTBF figure applies to a population
of hard drives and not to any individual drive in that identical
group. For example, 100 drives with a rated MTBF 100,000 hours, you
would expect a failure in that 100 drives within 100,000 hours of
total running time of all the drives. The 100 drives would
experience a failure once every 1,000 hours. In other words if you
had a data farm with 1000 such drives a MTBF figure of 100,000 you
could expect one drive to fail every 100 hours. Such figures are ultimately meaningless if your
drive dies only after a few months usage. So lets get down to
basics, Hyper Drive II has no mechanical moving parts to break or
wear out. It can survive both lower and higher operating
temperatures and survive greater shock loading (G-Force) both
working and when in storage. It can function at greater altitudes as
dense air is not needed to cushion the read/write heads as the disk
moves under them, simply because it does not have any read/write
heads or indeed any mechanical moving parts at all!
The Hyper Drive II comes complete with a 3-year
manufacturers warranty. |
