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[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures[/ame]
In engineering, there's always a tradeoff between performace, reliability and the maintenance overload.
IT systems tend to be designed for minimal physical maintenance and concentrate instead on workarounds to minimise the impact of failures.