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> What baffles me is why nobody else reports drive failure stats? My wild-ass guess is that organisations with enough hard drives to make reliable estimates gi
by zkms 9y ago
> What baffles me is why nobody else reports drive failure stats?
My wild-ass guess is that organisations with enough hard drives to make reliable estimates give performance/failure data to whoever installed/designed the arrays (who i imagine get some competitive advantage from knowing which drives fail) and so there's probably a pretty serious culture of secrecy around this stuff.
- trevyn 9y agoNot a culture of secrecy, they just have good relationships with the vendors, so it's professional courtesy not to publicly compare. Where you do see it is when relations are strained, see for example YouTube bandwidth reports.