On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *SNIP*
> > Anyway, you can find more anecdotes in the archives of this list. > IIRC someone else corroborated that he found, among non-DoA drives, > failures are more likely in the first month than in the second month, > but I couldn't find the post. > > I did find Richard Elling's posting of this paper: > > > http://www.usenix.org/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram.pdf > > but it does not support my claim about first-month failures. Maybe my > experience is related to something NetApp didn't have, maybe related > to the latest batch of consumer drives released after that study, or > to the consumer supply chain. *SNIP* For another good read on drive failures, there's also "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population": http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
