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Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability

Posted by Zonk on from the fun-saturday-night-reading dept.

oski4410 writes "The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.'"

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  1. Great by true_hacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Excellent, i have been looking forward to thi *%)%*# DISK FAILURE

    1. Re:Great by Compholio · · Score: 2, Funny

      Excellent, i have been looking forward to thi *%)%*# DISK FAILURE
      That's what you get for logging into slashdot from Antarctica...
  2. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't read the article? (Check)
    Didn't read the summary? (Check)

    Congratulations, you're not officially a slashdot regular!

  3. Google had this paper ready a year ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the disk it was on failed.

  4. Translation by jd · · Score: 3, Funny
    "We don't want to be sued to within an inch of our lives by certain very wealthy brands, due to US law allowing manufacturers to prohibit unfavourable reviews."

    Ideally, they would have formatted the text to spell out the names of the brands if you take the first letter of every Nth word, or some specific column of text. (Or maybe they have...)

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    1. Re:Translation by bendodge · · Score: 3, Funny

      How did that get modded insightful? When there is more demand the price goes down, not up!

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    2. Re:Translation by bazorg · · Score: 2, Funny

      We made this interesting and useful HDD test which we made public however it lacks some details as it's still in Beta.

  5. This speaks volumes. by greenguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google releases a paper on disk reliability.

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  6. Re:Did they ever name the brands? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would have released that data, but it was saved on a Maxtor.

  7. Re:Did they ever name the brands? by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, obviously you're not a lawyer :-) Otherwise you would know the answer.

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  8. Re:That would be corporate dynamite by jamesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not that far removed from the motto of several other large companies:

    "Don't get caught doing anything evil."

  9. Re:Hmm by pugugly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't check the typing? (Check)

    Congratulations, you're now officially a slashdot regular! - Pug

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  10. Re:Hmm by Trogre · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congratulations, you're not officially a slashdot regular!

    Didn't hit the 'Preview' button first? (Check)

    Congratulations, you are too!

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