HDD metrics and why mean time to failure is not terribly useful

Computer Weekly Tuesday 4th November 2025, 8:10AM 1 min read 11 hours ago

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about hard drive metrics, why MTTF is less useful than annualised failure rate, and why big systems need to use enterprise drives

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