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Could 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,
by stanley 18y ago
Could 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.