Provide the following probabilities:     - I lose my data as both hard-disks fail.   - Only one disk fails.

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 Suppose I have two hard-disks on my computer. I set the computer up so that the 2nd hard-

disk has an exact copy of the 1st hard-disk. Assuming the failure rate of each hard-disk is 0.1%,

and these two disks are independent of each other. Provide the following probabilities:

 

 

- I lose my data as both hard-disks fail.

 

- Only one disk fails.

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