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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:02:13 -0700
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Interesting article from Google, based on the statistics of their large
data center.

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

I think most interesting part is this.
Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much
less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.

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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Interesting article from Google, based =
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<P><I><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive =
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">I think most interesting part is =
this.</FONT>

<BR><I><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Surprisingly, we found<SPAN =
LANG=3D"en-us"> that temperature and activity levels were much less =
correlated</SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> with drive failures than =
previously reported.</SPAN></FONT></I></P>

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