Sunday, March 26, 2006

99.* Reliability, What does it mean?

If you are one of those who has been in the dark about what exactly the reliability in terms of % meant, here is the answer. It took me a hell of a long time to find this out.

Six Nines
99.9999
32 seconds

Five Nines
99.999
5 minutes, 15 seconds

Four Nines
99.99
52 minutes, 36 seconds

Three Nines
99.9
8 hours, 46 minutes

Two Nines
99
3 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes

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