From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:18:41 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ata drive capabilities In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2230cfac-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Dec 26, 2007 7:44 AM, Joshua Wood 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.