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The reliability of a hard-disk drive is typically described in terms of a quantity called mean time between failures (MTBF). Although this quantity is called a "time," the MTBF actually is measured in drive-hours per failure. True or False?

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True

Step-by-step explanation:

MTFB is arithmetic mean time between drive failures.

Following is formula to calculate MTFB


MTFB= (summation of(Downtime start - uptime start))/(total number of failures)

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