[net.periphs] Does anyone certify MTBF and MTTR of disk drives?

sam@delftcc.UUCP (Sam Kendall) (02/19/86)

A Fujitsu brochure in front of me quotes a mean time between failures
(MTBF) of > 20,000 power-on hours, and a mean time to repair (MTTR) of
< 30 minutes.

Question: for disk drives in general, are these figures whatever the
manufacturer sees fit to claim?  Or is there some body (in the USA or
elsewhere) that regulates such claims?

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