The original headline has been changed and the headline now reads: Disk drive failures 15 times what vendors say, study says.
All references to mean time to failure (MTTF) are now correct in the story.
CORRECTION - Drive failures 15 times what vendors say
02.03.2007
The story, "Study: Disk drive failures 15 times what vendors say," posted Friday, incorrectly quantified in the headline the discrepancy between vendor claims and what a study found out about failure rates in disk drives. The story also incorrectly referred to an incorrect measurement for disk failure. The correct measure is mean time to failure (MTTF). The story has been corrected on the wire.