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>> It might even be that 10 false positives a day are worth it to catch one real event, if the "safing" operation is relatively non-disruptive.

This will cause so much panic that people will ignore them at some point. 10 false positives (even 1 a day) just make the system unreliable.



OP seems to be talking about "automated systems". A harddisk might stop reading/writing for moment and park the heads to avoid a head-crash and things like that.




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