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Re: Life of CD/DVD Drives? (OT)


On 15/05/06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) <gsw@agere.com> wrote:

I've had this happen several times with standalone DVD players.  It
has nothing to do with amount of use or anything else AFAICT.


Most casual consumer IDE cd/dvd recorders are engineered to handle around 1'000 recordings. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure, STFWikipedia) of anything from cars to dishwashers is a Big Secret in the industry, but expect it to be just past the announced warranty, especially for low-end hardware. All these values are statistical though, so one might just fail at once when another might just last thrice the MTBF.

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