[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Oct 18 19:51:30 UTC 2007


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:23:39PM -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Forget the Google study. The Carnegie-Mellon study
> (<URL:http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html>).
> that appeared one day later at USENIX in March 2007 eclipsed
> it. That's the one I and others have referred to here.
> 
> >From the abstract:
> 
>     Interestingly, we observe little difference in replacement rates
>     between SCSI, FC and SATA drives, potentially an indication that
>     disk-independent factors, such as operating conditions, affect
>     replacement rates more than component specific factors.

I will read it tonight.  If it doesn't mention duty cycle, I will
ignore it.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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