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02-20-2007, 08:14 PM
Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong (http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/93594254/article.pl):
modapi writes "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real-world results from 100,000 disk drives got the 'Best Paper' award. Bianca Schroeder, of CMU's Parallel Data Lab, submitted Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? The paper crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as vendor MTBF validity, 'consumer' vs. 'enterprise' drive reliability (spoiler: no difference), and RAID 5 assumptions. StorageMojo has a good summary of the paper's key points."http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=emVlXo</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=emVlXo)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/93594254
modapi writes "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real-world results from 100,000 disk drives got the 'Best Paper' award. Bianca Schroeder, of CMU's Parallel Data Lab, submitted Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? The paper crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as vendor MTBF validity, 'consumer' vs. 'enterprise' drive reliability (spoiler: no difference), and RAID 5 assumptions. StorageMojo has a good summary of the paper's key points."http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=emVlXo</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=emVlXo)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/93594254