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When Google did a massive analysis of hard-drive failures they also didn't publish manufacturer names, because they felt that it would tarnish the company name
by zipdog 14y ago
When Google did a massive analysis of hard-drive failures they also didn't publish manufacturer names, because they felt that it would tarnish the company name when it might just be a production run
- acqq 14y agoYes, such statistics would have to be limited to the exact models analyzed, I can imagine the results in the next generation of the products turning other way around.
- starpilot 14y agoActually, they were just keeping their cards close to their chest: > 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. http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf