From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on
> HD freaky facts below.
> RL
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Thanks!

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From: Fishface on
RayLopez99 quoted:

> Google uses regular old consumer grade
> desktop hard drives in its worldwide data servers. The same hard
> drives you would find inside your computer today. They collected, over
> the course of their history, an enormous amount of data about under
> which conditions those hard drives fail, and how likely hard drives
> are to fail. It�s a heavily technical 13 page report, and if you have
> the time you can read it here:
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Still, it would have been nice if they had statistics for the brands and models
they actually used.