... formatted 18 .2 Gbytes, formatted Interface type 80-pin Ultra -2 SCSI 80-pin Ultra -2 SCSI Number of Discs (physical) 12 Number of heads (physical) 24 12 Total cylinders (SCSI only) 9,7 72 9,801 Total ... repair is 24 hours, then the mean time to data loss of a mirrored disk system using 100 disks with MTTF of 20 0,000 hours each is (20 0,000 )2/ (2 * 24 ) = 8.33 * 108 hours, which is 95, 028 years (Note ... soon be reserved for databases containing tens of terabytes 5.1 .2 Storage of Databases Databases typically store large amounts of data that must persist over long periods of time The data is accessed...