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From: "roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ata drive capabilities
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:18:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370712260518o119234f3h2179c4784a59ed3d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD04582B-2D24-4FA4-B005-A3BC4D059043@utopian.net>

On Dec 26, 2007 7:44 AM, Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:
> If it's everyone's favorite ``big search company'' in question, they
> have an [only moderately depressing] paper:
>        http://209.85.163.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf

where it says:
: Most age-related results are impacted by
: drive vintages. However, in this paper, we do not show a
: breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage
: due to the proprietary nature of these data.

what a pity! it would have been so great to have had
an objective assessment of reliability by manufacturer.

i've found it really quite hard to find useful data to
indicate how reliable a drive might be.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26  7:44 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 13:18 ` roger peppe [this message]
2007-12-26 18:15   ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-27  9:01 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27 15:15 ` Brantley Coile
2007-12-27  6:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-27  7:28 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 16:22 Joshua Wood
2007-12-26 18:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-25 21:40 Christian Kellermann
2007-12-25 21:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-25 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26  6:31   ` ron minnich
2007-12-26 13:10     ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-26 19:52       ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 20:13         ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-12-27 18:12           ` Christian Kellermann
2007-12-26 23:58         ` Robert William Fuller
2007-12-27  2:34         ` erik quanstrom

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