Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: Fw: [Hampshire] Replacement hard drive question
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:58:37 Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:40:36PM +0100, m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> > Quoting Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???>:
> > > I thought the evidence now suggested that the actual failure rate
> > > of a disk is proportional to it's age with only a small bath-tub
> > > effect and there was no longevity difference between modern SCSI
> > > or PATA/SATA disks at all. In the early days SCSI disks were both
> > > more reliable and more flexible and potentially faster, now the
> > > only difference is that they cost a lot more per Mb.
> > >
> > > There was some paper publised recently that Google funded - they
> > > have a lot of disks and wanted to understand how they failed - or
> > > something...
> >
> > I thought that paper dispelled the recieved knowledge that higher
> > temperatures resulted in hard drives life span being shortened?
>
> Does anyone actually have the reference to this paper? What journal
> was it published in, for example?
