[mythtv-users] OT: Interesting study on HDD failure by Google labs

Ivan Kowalenko ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 16:43:32 UTC 2007


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On Feb 18, 2007, at 00.17, Dewey Smolka wrote:

> I know this is way off topic, but considering how Myth users tend to
> push their drives much harder than the general population I thought
> people here would appreciate it.

[snip]

> All in all, a thorough and well-written study by a group that probably
> has more drives to look after than anyone else on the planet. Thanks
> to Google for making this study public.
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Wow. First Google helps us out by putting MythTV in the Summer of  
Code (2006), now they indirectly help us out by publishing everything  
they know about hard disk failures. Google just <3's us (indirectly).

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