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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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 Hard drive reliability white paper
Here's a link to a summary of an interesting hard drive reliability paper.
http://storagemojo.com/?p=383
It may lose some of you in parts, but it's very interesting reading. A few points it makes:
Consumer drives are no more likely to fail then big business drives
RAID is pointless, just mirror your data
hard drive manufacturers lie about reliability (duh!)
Anyway, good stuff., thought I'd share.
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Last edited by Satis on Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Mole
Minor Diety
Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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What a dissapointment - I thought this was going to be about some form of paper hard drive.
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Hehehe, yeah, me too.
Can you link me straight to the paper tho Satis? lots of links on the page and too lazy to check which one I gotta click.
I'm pretty sure the budget Maxtor disks will be at the bottom end of the spectrum. 
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:40 am |
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Mole
Minor Diety
Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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I had a quick scan of the page - it paraphrases most of the important bits Oxy 
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:45 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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yea, that's why I linked StorageMojo... the actual paper is here:
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder.html
and the link to FAST07 (the forum where the paper was presented) is here:
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/
Both of which were in like the first few paragraphs. 
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:05 am |
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Mole
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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Damnit Satis you change the title now Ox and me seem even MORE moronic! Ahwell, Let's be moronic together, ay Ox?
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:51 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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yay for the power of moron!
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:42 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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*puts on moronic power belt*
Anyway, thanks for the direct links. I was really lazy yesterday. 
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:54 am |
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