mercredi, février 21, 2007
hard disk failure
half-surprisingly, half-unsurprisingly, Google did hard drive failure analysis on their hundreds of thousands of hard drives. yup they have that many disk drives. wow. you would almost think they should own a stake in one of the companies. and they have churned up useful statistics on how hard drives fail. which agrees completely with me that S.M.A.R.T., this process which is supposed to detect hard drive failure, is useless and inaccurate.
experienced uni students can read the Google Labs paper titled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population", it even contains 20 references, link on the webpage.
hard disk failure
"[hard disk drive] failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age"engadget link
half-surprisingly, half-unsurprisingly, Google did hard drive failure analysis on their hundreds of thousands of hard drives. yup they have that many disk drives. wow. you would almost think they should own a stake in one of the companies. and they have churned up useful statistics on how hard drives fail. which agrees completely with me that S.M.A.R.T., this process which is supposed to detect hard drive failure, is useless and inaccurate.
experienced uni students can read the Google Labs paper titled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population", it even contains 20 references, link on the webpage.
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