Misc. | September 2nd, 2009
Interesting data here.
Google Labs has a research paper describing disk failure rates (ignoring manufacturer)
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Here are the results summarized:
| Time Span | Failure Rate |
| 3mo | 3% |
| 6mo | 2% |
| 1yr | 2% |
| 2yr | 8% |
| 3yr | 9% |
| 4yr | 6% |
| 5yr | 7% |
No Manufactures are mentioned in the paper:
"Failure rates are known to be highly correlated with drive models, manufacturers and vintages [18]. Our results do not contradict this fact. For example, Figure 2 changes significantly when we normalize failure rates per each drive model. Most age-related results are impacted by drive intages. However, in this paper, we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage due to the proprietary nature of these data."
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-Bill-Bartmann
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-Bill-Bartmann
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