[Gllug] Is this a silly (RAID) notion?

[Nix]

On 3 Dec 2007, John Hearns stated:
> It would be interesting to find out how long the data on an average
> (sealed, winchester) hard drive will last.
> I guess it will be difficult to ever do a real study - as the interfaces
> to drives change over time.

Google has done some interesting studies (publically available). They
have a *huge* distributed disk farm, more than large enough to carry out
statistical studies on.

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