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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (812)	7/30/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

For an interesting Quantum white paper on Theoretical versus real life MTBF, see quantum.com . They use the traditional explanation: run a large enough sample size and one will fail every MTBF hours. But I believe my explanation was more "accessible", since no one wants to wait 100,000-1,000,000 hours for anything these days. <g>

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (812)	7/30/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: Robert Neville	Respond to of 10072

>>> PDAs and telephones may run 8 hours / day. So what you need to do is multiply 10% by the percentage use over a year. 8 hours / day = about 3% failure rate. <<< But the Clik has energy-conservation software built in, and only runs when it is actually writing or reading data. Even with PDAs and telephones, it's hard to imagine anyone running the unit for more than a fraction of an hour per day. Even if you ran the pants off the thing and managed to get an hour a day of actual operation in, we'd still be looking at less than 0.4% failures per year. Bob