[Tig] removable storage disks

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Rick Balabuck wrote:
> So SCUSI and FIBRE drives are going to be better and lots more
> expensive and should last longer. The basic problem is that even

I had one SCSI drive running without fail for 13 years (it never 
failed, but 640MB only goes so far), and others (still in active use!) 
for almost as long.  This email will cross a SCSI disk which has been 
running essentially non-stop (good enough for 5 9's) for 9 years 
already.

> Be warned that trying to find out more about this information is
> really a challenge and will require a lot of web searching.
> check out this article for more information.
> Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
> by Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andr´e Barroso
> Google Inc

A recent issue of the USENIX magazine includes an article about the 
actual difference between "enterprise" SCSI/FC and "desktop" drives. 
It also includes a number of articles about observed failure rates at 
a number of large sites (including Google).

Bob
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