Re: Fw: [Hampshire] Replacement hard drive question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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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?

Hugo.

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