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Google study on failure trends in hard disks

labs.google.com — Some engineers of google have published a study entitled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" showing the results of an analysis of over 100,000 drives which had been in use at one of the numerous google data centers. Although they state that drives of certain manufacturers are more prone to fail than others, they don't say any names.

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  • CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This really sucks because this could be insanely useful had they disclosed the information of the HDD brands and models. They give an unbeleivable amount of information out in this, but it really doesn't serve any purpose becuase we don' tknow what brands they're talking about.
  • Sonic_Molson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is perhaps the most interesting and useful article I've read on digg in the past few weeks, months even.
  • jdavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1because if they did, that might really affect how much they pay for hard drives.
  • brettnetworks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am really surprised that in the study lower operational temps caused more failure than the higher temps. From what I gathered a drive running at 60 degrees F is worse of than a drive running around 80 degrees F.
  • netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say the brand that fails most is Western Digital...

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