Hardware Reliability

[Paul Makepeace]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Avleen Vig <avleen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen<ask at develooper.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2009, at 13:49, <duncan.garland at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Can somebody please point me in the direction of some authorative
> >> reliability statistics for server hardware, preferably including add-ons
> >> such as disc arrays?
> >
> > Google has a paper on that stuff for individual disks.  In my experience
> > failure rates for everything else is much lower (but each failure of
> course
> > is more hassle):
> >
> >        http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>
> All is not what it seems.
> Take this with a spoon of salt.


As an ex-Google employee who's read the full report here I'm not sure what
you're referring to either.

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