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Created February 24, 2011 19:57
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Percentage of reliability (99% uptime) and the amount of downtime it relates to:
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Reliability vs. Downtime
Nines of Reliability: (Hours / Minutes / Seconds)
2 9's (99%) = up to 87.6h / 5256.0m / 315360.0 seconds of downtime per year.
3 9's (99.9%) = up to 8.76h / 525.6m / 31536.0 seconds of downtime per year.
4 9's (99.99%) = up to 0.876h / 52.559999999999995m / 3153.6 seconds of downtime per year.
5 9's (99.999%) = up to 0.0876h / 5.256m / 315.36 seconds of downtime per year.
6 9's (99.9999%) = up to 0.00876h / 0.5256000000000001m / 31.536 seconds of downtime per year.
7 9's (99.99999%) = up to 8.76E-4h / 0.05256m / 3.1536 seconds of downtime per year.
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