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Since you have many years of data, do you explicitly factor the observed the failure rate patterns of particular brands into cost models when buying drives? (E
by jasode 10y ago
Since you have many years of data, do you explicitly factor the observed the failure rate patterns of particular brands into cost models when buying drives? (E.g. more anticipated replacement cost factor when buying Seagate drives.) Or is the failure data purely for curiosity and not fed back into a spreadsheet? In other words, does every cost projection treat every brand with the same predefined anticipated failure rate regardless of brand?
- atYevP 10y ago> Since you have many years of data, do you explicitly factor the observed the failure rate patterns of particular brands into cost models when buying drives? Sometimes. We do take it in to account but if a hard drive that costs less but fails more comes around and the failure rate in our environment is within some "tolerance" we'll get that drive, even if we might see some more failure. So we do use the data to inform our purchasing department of the "future costs" of drives, but a good deal's a good deal :)