Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks can be expected to fail each year. But data collected from 100,000 installed disks says otherwise. Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks ...
The statistics of mean time between failures (MTBF) and average failure rate (AFR) have gotten lots of attention lately in the storage world, especially with the release of three much-discussed ...
At this year’s Usenix File and Storage Technologies Conference in San Jose, we were treated to two papers studying failure rates in disk populations numbering over 100,000. These kinds of data sets ...