The rate of
hardware faults can be reduced by reducing the
failure rate of the hardware components. The rate of
hardware faults can be reduced by reducing the
failure rate of the hardware components.
The rate of component faults may be calculated by common measures, such as MTBF (
Wiki ).
More about calculating
failure rates
in Wiki .
The MTBF of the components should be chosen such that the calculated
MTBI is acceptable by the
stakeholders .
Reliability of critical component may be traded off
with a replacement policy, assuming that component is detected in time, and the recovery
time is acceptable.
The
costs of reliability should be compared with those
due to the interruption and recovery activities.
Updated on 19 Apr 2016.