Also remember that pairs of disks probably came off the production line as similar times. So this is probabyl a twins paradox!
I think we all know that disks age together, and if this is an old age failure then the chances of two going wrong at the same time ar ehigher. On 1 May 2017 at 09:20, Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > Oh ... The birthday paradox as applied to disk failures. That had never > occurred to me before, but it should have done! > > Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 29 Apr 2017, at 3:36 pm, Peter St. John <peter.st.j...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > just a friendly reminder that while the probability of a particular > coincidence might be very low, the probability that there will be **some** > coincidence is very high. > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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