A few days ago google released a study showing the rate of failure for harddisks. The study conduncted in google’s huge data centers yielded some very surprising facts related to the health and failure trends of hard drives.
Some interesting conclusions:
- Harddrive failure rates are definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age
- Higher temperatures do not mean more failures.
- If you’re hard drive didn’t fail in the first year, it’ll possibly survive for the next few years.
You can download the research paper here (PDF).
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