Last week researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a paper which examined the real-world reliability of hard drives. It concluded that hard drive failure rate was much higher (by a factor ...

A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, concludes that hard disk drive failure rates are fifteen times higher than indicated by the MTTF information provided by manufacturers. Using a sample ...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) deliver high storage capacities at low cost, but HDD models can differ considerably. Capacity and price are not the only criteria that should determine the choice of HDD. Other ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...

Almost 50 years ago, James Black demonstrated experimentally that TTF of the metal line stressed by direct current (DC) of density j at the temperature T follows the dependency Both MTTF and are found ...

Power supply reliability is important - no one wants their production line, measurement instrument, communications system or electronic product to stop working prematurely due to a failure. How is ...

Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) and sometimes references as Mean Time For Failure (MTFF) is the length of time a device or software is expected to last in operation. MTTF is one of many ways to assess the ...