Google disk drive survey

Google recently published an extensive report on hard drive failures.

Temperature is often quoted as the most important environmental factor affecting disk drive reliability. Previous studies have indicated that temperature deltas as low as 15C can nearly double disk drive failure rates

Read for yourself. You can find the source here. If you have any download problems you can download my copy here.

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