DVD Burner Question?

[Lilrock]

I was looking at the specs for my Liteon 8X DVD Burner and I saw something that says MTBF ( Life ) : 70,000 Hours. What does this mean?

[glc]

Mean Time Before Failure

In other words, average lifespan.

[Lilrock]

Do all burners and CD-Rom's have this projected life span?

[RJ]

Yep. Hard drives and monitors as well I believe.

RJ

[MulderMan]

i hope not :(.

[RJ]

i hope not

Why not ?
And as I said, that's it. Never seen an MTBF number ? It's on every specification .. .at least it should be there.

RJ

[Hi Ho]

i hope not
I am also perplexed. 70,000 hours is almost 8 years. That's not a short life. Also, that number is considering that it is never turned off.

[MulderMan]

oooo sorry i wasnt thinking straight :(, i didnt realise that it was nearly 8 years. i havent clearly seen a MTBF number yet, but presumeably it will be in the packaging.