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Everything you know about disks is wrong



 
 
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Old March 1st 07, 09:16 AM posted to comp.arch.storage
Bill Todd
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Default Everything you know about disks is wrong

Interesting article: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038

If you're not already familiar with it, StorageMojo.com is also worth a
visit.

- bill
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Old March 1st 07, 11:48 AM posted to comp.arch.storage
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Bill Todd wrote:
Interesting article: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038

If you're not already familiar with it, StorageMojo.com is also worth a
visit.

- bill

And you can find the original Google research paper that start this at

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

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Old March 1st 07, 12:38 PM posted to comp.arch.storage
Bill Todd
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Nik Simpson wrote:
Bill Todd wrote:
Interesting article: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038

If you're not already familiar with it, StorageMojo.com is also worth
a visit.

- bill

And you can find the original Google research paper that start this at

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf


Yes - there's a link in the reference I gave, and to the CMU paper as well.

- bill
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Old March 2nd 07, 01:59 AM posted to comp.arch.storage
Faeandar
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Default Everything you know about disks is wrong

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:16:02 -0500, Bill Todd
wrote:

Interesting article: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038

If you're not already familiar with it, StorageMojo.com is also worth a
visit.

- bill


The google paper was very much a testament to ego rather than any
outside world valid data. Several of the main points were recanted or
severely modified under Q&A after the presentation.

However, the paper by Schroeder was well done and stood up under
scrutiny.

~F
 




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