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Surely it doesn’t matter when you have 10,000s of drives? Aren’t you already at a large enough sample size? If it isn’t, what is the point of them publishing
by JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
Surely it doesn’t matter when you have 10,000s of drives? Aren’t you already at a large enough sample size? If it isn’t, what is the point of them publishing this every year? I don’t know the math of the matter though.
- war1025 7y agoYea I don't know. I'm not big on statistics either. I just noticed that the drives that did the worst were the ones that had the most usage overall.
- labawi 7y agoThat would probably be price ~ failure rate correlation.
- generalpass 7y ago> Surely it doesn’t matter when you have 10,000s of drives? Aren’t you already at a large enough sample size? If it isn’t, what is the point of them publishing this every year? I don’t know the math of the matter though. I think drive age matters? I'm not clear if they cycle drives out at a certain age or just run them until they fail. Also, if a drive is low enough in cost, then the additional cost of replacing an incremental 1% may be lower than the cost of acquisition of a more reliable drive.