"KLC Lewis" wrote in
et:

Ummm..."MTBF"? Something do do with planned failure from context, but
could you elucidate?





Mean Time Between Failures. It's the tolerance set in the specifications
as to how long it should run, in the mean, between failure modes....

MTBF for the Chinese hard drives in your computer is hundreds of thousands
of hours for $99.

MTBF for a $35,000 American car is one hour past the end of the warranty
period, but they're not really good at making them last that long....

MTBF for a cored boat deck depends on whether it rains or not.

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