Google Issues Paper On Hard Drive Failures
Google has issued a paper on the reliability of certain types of hard drives named Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Engadget sums up the study via Slashdot saying the following: Studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 and 400GB storage and 5400 to 7200rpm 56% of failed drives […]
Barry Schwartz on February 19, 2007 at 9:22 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google has issued a paper on the reliability of certain types of hard drives named Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Engadget sums up the study via Slashdot saying the following:
- Studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 and 400GB storage and 5400 to 7200rpm
- 56% of failed drives did not raise any significant SMART flags
- Patterns showed that failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age
- Failure rates did not correspond to drive usage except in very young and old drives
- There is less correlation between drive temperature and failure rates than might have been expected
- Drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.