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SN081: Hard Drive Unreliability

SN081: Hard Drive Unreliability

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March 2, 2007

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Show Notes

Leo and I discuss the distressing results and implications of two recent very large population studies (more than 100,000 drives each) of hard drive field failures. Google and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) both conducted and submitted studies for the recent 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies.