Google analysis of hard disk failures

[yesthattom]

Google has released the paper that I’ve been wanting to talk about for months. This is a really interesting read. We collected the S.M.A.R.T. data from hard disks in use for years and learned some very interesting things. Including... running hard drives hot now and then doesn’t seem to produce as many failures as one would think. If you really want to predict failure, well, you’ll have to read the paper.