Google Study on Harddrive Failure Released
Google Labs is known for periodically releasing internal statistics and research to the general public. Just released a few days ago is a study showing the rate of failure for Google's harddisk infrastructure in their insanely huge data centers. Surprisingly, "heat" is not concluded to be a significant factor in harddrive failure, relatively speaking. Among other things, it breaks down the failure rates of drive between 0-5 years old and acknowledges the benefits and short-comings of SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) that is built into all modern drives today. If you're planning on building a data center in the near future 5 FIOS in my mom's basement muahahaha this is a must read!
On a related noted and as a Hindu, I am eagarly waiting for Google Caste Beta to be released! Beyonce Subhramaniradhakrishan?
And now ladies and gentlemen, "your moment of zen."
