• "Drive Failure Over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking"

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 26 14:24:35 2021
    "Drive Failure Over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking"

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/drive-failure-over-time-the-bathtub-curve-is-leaking/

    "As noted earlier, back in 2013, the 80% of the drives installed would
    be expected to survive four years. That fell to 50% after six years. In
    2021, the life expectancy of a hard drive being alive at six years is
    88%. That’s a substantial increase, but it basically comes down to the
    fact that hard drives are failing less in our system. We think it is a combination of better drives, better storage servers, and better
    practices by our data center teams."

    So, today's hard drives are better than hard drives just from six years
    ago. I wonder what will happen when all of the helium drives start
    hitting their five year life ?

    Lynn

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