http://blogs.technet.com/vacuumtube/archive/tags/research/default.aspxTags: researchen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/vacuumtube/archive/2007/02/16/google-study-on-harddrive-failure-released.aspxSat, 17 Feb 2007 01:08:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:645491Viral Tarpara0http://blogs.technet.com/vacuumtube/comments/645491.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/vacuumtube/commentrss.aspx?PostID=645491<P mce_keep="true"><IMG title="evil google" style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 167px" height=167 alt="evil google" src="http://www.avalon5.com/images/evilgoogle.jpg" width=200 align=top vspace=3 border=3 mce_src="http://www.avalon5.com/images/evilgoogle.jpg"></P> <P><A class="" title=googlelabs href="http://labs.google.com/" target=_blank mce_href="http://labs.google.com/">Google Labs</A> is known for periodically releasing internal statistics and <A class="" title="googlelab papers" href="http://labs.google.com/papers" target=_blank mce_href="http://labs.google.com/papers">research</A> to the general public.&nbsp; Just released a few days ago is a <A class="" title="google labs harddrive study" href="http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf" target=_blank mce_href="http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf">study</A> showing the rate of failure for Google's harddisk infrastructure in their insanely huge data centers.&nbsp; Surprisingly, "heat" is not concluded to be a significant factor in harddrive failure, relatively speaking.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; If you're planning on <A class="" title="msft datacenter" href="http://blogs.technet.com/controlpanel/blogs/article_id=830" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.technet.com/controlpanel/blogs/article_id=830">building a data center</A> in the near future <EM><STRIKE>5 FIOS in my mom's basement muahahaha</STRIKE></EM> this is a must read!</P> <P>&nbsp;On a related noted and as a <A class="" title="kali ma" href="http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f62/leot77/indiana-jones-e-templo-da-perdicao0.jpg" target=_blank mce_href="http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f62/leot77/indiana-jones-e-templo-da-perdicao0.jpg">Hindu</A>, I am eagarly waiting for <A class="" title="google caste" href="http://www.stoltenow.com/pics/google_sm.jpg" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.stoltenow.com/pics/google_sm.jpg">Google Caste Beta</A> to be released!&nbsp; <EM><STRIKE>Beyonce Subhramaniradhakrishan?</STRIKE></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;And now ladies and gentlemen,&nbsp;"<A class="" title="indy jones lego" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPgU5kAjKE" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPgU5kAjKE">your moment of zen</A>."</P> <OBJECT height=350 width=425><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/egPgU5kAjKE"><PARAM NAME="wmode" VALUE="transparent"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/egPgU5kAjKE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></OBJECT> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=645491" width="1" height="1">EnterpriseITIndiana JonesfunnyresearchGoogle