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This seems real despite the post date.
by intregus 18y ago
This seems real despite the post date.
- durana 18y agoI've been in data centers hosting Google systems. This picture looks very similar if not identical to what I've seen, so I'd say it is most definitely real.
- stanley 18y agoCould you verify if Google still uses Hitachi Deskstar drives? I recall reading an article about the testing Google conducted to find the most reliable drives, but they refused to publish the findings.
- pert 18y agoThey did actually publish their results. It's an interesting read: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
- ciupicri 18y agoThat paper does not mention any specific brands or models.
- durana 18y agoI wasn't ever close enough to see what kind of disks they were.
- durin42 18y agoBased on their white paper on MTBF of hard disks, I'd guess that they avoid favoring any single vendor to lower the chance of a bad batch of drives all failing at once.