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Re: Life of CD/DVD Drives? (OT)
- From: Lloeki <lloeki at gmail dot com>
- To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:48:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: Life of CD/DVD Drives? (OT)
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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.