[Novalug] Re: Disk Errors?

Kevin Dwyer kevin@pheared.net
Sat Sep 1 22:48:10 EDT 2007


On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:42:48PM -0400, Kevin Kitts wrote:
> I agree - but isn't it too bad that all the people that have had failed disk
> drives cannot somehow combine their data with the overall number of drives
> sold my each manufacturer to see what the overall failure rates really are -
> now that would be useful...

Probably you would be able to find which batches of drives from a given
manufacturer were bad.  I was at a talk where google mentioned that they
can actually do this since they buy such a large quantity of commodity
drives.

-kpd



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