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Failure trends in ATA drives



Given the discussions about commodity ATA/SATA disks lately, this might be an interesting read:

Google apparently uses mostly commodity/consumer ATA drives. They did a study of 100,000 of them.

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

• Contrary to previously reported results, we found very little correlation between failure rates and either elevated temperature or activity levels.
• Some SMART parameters (scan errors, reallocation counts, offline reallocation counts, and probational counts) have a large impact on failure probability.
• Given the lack of occurrence of predictive SMART signals on a large fraction of failed drives, it is unlikely that an accurate predictive failure model can be built based on these signals alone.


See also:

http://storagemojo.com/?p=378

Regards,

Dave Schroeder            |    University of Wisconsin - Madison
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