Google : a Paper On Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population

aetherx.blogspot.com — The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite Feb 23, 2007 View in Crawl 4