"Powell" wrote in message


"Robert Morein" wrote

There is ZERO chance that an Atlas will run for 160 years.

"Zero"... I guess you never studied/passed statistics
classes in college. Zero denies the bases of mathematical
probability.

I find it ironic that Morein tries to make a strong point out of splitting
some statistical hairs, and then falls into this trap. You got him, Powell.

Certainly empirical experiences have more weight than
applied modeling. Do you have evidence that HDs, in
general, don't last five years. My experience is that most
of the computers headed for the recycle still have fully
operating HDs and users who a glad to see them go
away.

Most = 50% . I scrap a fair number of PCs and my experience agrees with
you, Powell. More than half of the hard drives I install are scrapped maybe
5 or more years out, and they are still running. Anybody want any 1 or 2 GB
drives?

To understand the meaning of MTBF, read the following article:


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+M...ast.com&rnum=1

Your refered post also has errors in logic.

It's agressively insulting.

It's fantastically self-congratulatory.

It contains a lot of information that I've posted many times, yet Morein
seems to think that he invented it.

It's also a sloppy reference.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40comcast.com
also gets you the same place without resorting to the use of another web
site.

The only problem for you is the amount of knowledge
you'll have to purge to make room for this info. It may
leave you with toilet training and nothing else.

3rd grade metaphors, which speak more to you than me, Robert.

Again agreed.

We've got to remember that Morein tried to sue his school in the Supreme
Court of the United States in a failed attempt to get a PhD degree. This is
one seriously and expensively bruised ego. Like his RAO cohort in legal
failure Scott Wheeler, Morien's case got thrown out of court.