On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I believe that all drive manufacturers have some capacities or > technologies that do not hold up well. Absolutely true--and of course they themselves know well which drives are holding up well and which they aren't. Sadly, they don't share this information with their customers. Large customers like Google have internal tracking programs; there was a fascinating paper from Google few years back where they showed statistics on various failure scenarios, which dispelled several myths, e.g. by showing that drive temperature is not a significant factor unless it's extreme. On the other hand, they showed that a single failed sector is a significant predictor of impending failure. Unfortunately, Google didn't share the manufacturer/model statistics. I wish there was a website collecting independent, unbiased failure stats on good and bad disk units. I have some favorites: for instance a 16-year-old Quantum Bigfoot running my firewall at home. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
