<div dir="ltr">Assuming the hard drive is the least reliable component in the system :P<div><br></div><div>Sean</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:44 PM, John Lange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnlange.ca" target="_blank">john@johnlange.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would submit that any device that relies on a hard drive (of which there are many, not just computers), would have a failure curve that closely matches hard drives ;)<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" target="_blank">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 14-09-04 02:23 AM, Trevor Cordes wrote:<br>
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The Cars example is imperfect, because, as you said "it's good for a<br>
while",<br>
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Yup. Closest mass good I could think of offhand.<div><br>
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Surely if you ASCII'd a modern car graph it wouldn't quite fit?<br>
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The key difference is that you can repair and maintain a car, whereas a HDD (or SSD, for that matter) is either alive and well, alive and dying, or dead - and there's nothing you can do about it.<div><br>
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Your human being analogy is probably much closer to what I'm looking<br>
for, but that one definitely has an abrupt bathtub hockey-stick at the<br>
right hand side :-)<br>
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Yessss... although not so abrupt, at various points in history.<div><br>
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Surely, though, in the world of consumer items something else must be<br>
just like hard drives?<br>
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Not that I can think of. You have to combine a) non-negligible failure rate, with b) extremely tight tolerances, with c) variable quality control on (b), to get a similar result. Outside the computing field, I can't think of anything [other than cars] that has as much complexity, as "finicky" as 10,000rpm spinning platters - AND is common enough that everyone will understand it.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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