How did they look for predictive models on the SMART data? It sounds
like they did a fairly linear data decomposition, looking for first
order correlations. Did they try to e.g. build a neural network on it,
or use fully multivariate methods (ordinary stats can handle it up to
5-10 variables).
Despite my Duke e-mail address, I've been at Google since July. While
I'm not a co-author, I'm part of the group that did this study and can
answer (some) questions people may have about the paper.
Dangling meat in front of the bears, eh? Well...
I can always hide behind my duck-blind-sla
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Despite my Duke e-mail address, I've been at Google since July. While
I'm not a co-author, I'm part of the group that did this study and can
answer (some) questions people may have about the paper.
-jdm
Department of Computer Science, Duke
> I have heard stories about some of the first vacuum tube computers where a
> a full time technician walked around inside the computer
> and replaced blown out tubes - between every program run. I tend to
> think this has a certain myth aspect to this story, but like all myths it
> probably has s
