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MTBF, MTTF & Availability

Three different answers to "how reliable is it?" — and only one of them tells you what you actually experience as uptime.

MTBF gets quoted like a single scorecard number for reliability, and it isn't one. It answers a narrower question than most people assume, it only applies to a specific class of equipment, and by itself it says nothing at all about the number everyone actually cares about: how much of the time the system is up and working.