This piece covers a finding by Google engineers that in some ways contradicts commonly heald beliefs that high temperatures and\/or high utilization will cause a hard disk to fail sooner.<\/p>\n
Basically, they found that there is a weak coorelation between temp and failure rates. It also found that drives up to 3 years old that are used infrequently are more <\/em>likely to fail than those that have a high utilization.<\/p>\n They also found that a drive with any scan errors (surface errors) is 39 times more likely to fail than a drive with none.<\/p>\n What I took away was this: BBC NEWS | Technology | Hard disk test ‘surprises’ Google<\/a><\/p>\n Here is a direct link to the paper itself<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 http:\/\/216.239.37.132\/papers\/disk_failures.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This piece covers a finding by Google engineers that in some ways contradicts commonly heald beliefs that high temperatures and\/or high utilization will cause a hard disk to fail sooner. Basically, they found that there is a weak coorelation between temp and failure rates. It also found that drives up to 3 years old that … Continue reading Interesting piece on hard disk temp & utilization contributing to failure<\/span>
\n– Expect to replace drives after 3 years
\n– If a drive is showing scan errors, replace it.
\n– Don’t worry so much about temp & ‘thrashing’.<\/p>\n