>The likelihood that the first drive will fail doesn't change because the second one failed No thats the point, hardware failures on the same machine/rack/psu/site are not independant. A power supply spike that…
I think the point is that Pixar is owned and manged by Jobs. It's a little like finding that MS-Bing doesn't work with IE8
Do you also have RAID (Redundant Array Independant Donuts) ?
Lots of people who didn't fail statistics assume that events are independant. A bit like, the chance of my machine catching fire are 1 in a 1000, my machine did catch fire and I lost both drives - the odds on that…
>The likelihood that the first drive will fail doesn't change because the second one failed No thats the point, hardware failures on the same machine/rack/psu/site are not independant. A power supply spike that…
I think the point is that Pixar is owned and manged by Jobs. It's a little like finding that MS-Bing doesn't work with IE8
Do you also have RAID (Redundant Array Independant Donuts) ?
Lots of people who didn't fail statistics assume that events are independant. A bit like, the chance of my machine catching fire are 1 in a 1000, my machine did catch fire and I lost both drives - the odds on that…