[mythtv-users] Going to add HD-- anyone with the WD 'green' sata drive?

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

Okay very strange

Trying to click on the link gave me a 404 error. 

However when searching and finding the topic 

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population .. I come to the same link.

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

On Tue Mar 17 12:48 , "sonofzev at iinet.net.au"  sent:

>I can't find the document. 
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>On Tue Mar 17 12:38 , Johnny  sent:
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>>I have post this to the list before, but the google hard drive failure
>>study is a great reference for drive failure rates and causes:
>>http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf. It is short and
>>you can just skim over the charts and read some of their conclusions.
>>Some of the interesting tid-bits are that heavy utilization doesn't
>>correlate with higher failure rates (except in brand new or very old
>>drives), and low temperatures rather than high temperatures correlate
>>with higher failure rates. They say there were distinct models and
>>vintages with significantly higher failure rates, but they wouldn't
>>tell us any of those specifics.
>>
>>One metric I look at when thinking about performance and efficiency is
>>areal density and the number of platters. When picking up a 1 TB
>>drive, some will use 4x250 GB platters while others will use 2x500 GB
>>platters. It is only 1 in many things that affect performance, but
>>generally the higher density platters will have lower seek times and
>>use less energy.
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