Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population

Slashdot | Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability - Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population

The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff.

One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives at higher utilization levels.