Did anyone post this yet? I thinking this is one of the definitive works on disk failure.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf On 19 April 2013 17:56, Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > On 4/19/2013 11:47 AM, mathog wrote: >>> My overall impression is that, when buying drives, the single piece of >>> manufacturer provided data that >>> best correlates with the actual expected life of the drive is the >>> length of the warranty. Even that is little >>> protection against a bad batch though. > > Use AFR and warranty, ignore everything else. MTBF does not correlate > at all against AFR, and AFR is an objective measure. > >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> David Mathog >>> mat...@caltech.edu >>> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
