[Cialug] Google Hard Drive Study

[Aaron Porter]

On 3/7/07, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:

> Hard drive issues seem to keep popping up here.  I found this study by
> Google and thought I would share it.  After all, Google is one giant disk
> testing facility.  Consumer-type drives, not SCSI too.
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

This topic has been seeing a lot of discussion over on StorageMojo,
the public letter from NetApp was particularly interesting:

http://storagemojo.com/?p=388