OT: Is any hard disk brand better/worse than the others?

[John Sellens]

| | I haven't been in the hardware market for a while so I'm wondering if
| | there are any real winners or losers amongst hard drive makers.
| 
| Lots of people have opinions.  Only a few have a large enough sample
| size to do a rigorous study (eg. Google) and they aren't talking.


"Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000
hours mean to you?"
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html
from the USENIX FAST '07 conference proceedings.

They looked at 100,000 disks of various types/brands.  I did not see
a conclusion about reliability of different manufacturers.

Anecdotal: I believe NetApp uses Seagate drives.

Personal: I mirror everything I care about.  And make a backup.

Cheers

John
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