Microsoft did a metaanalysis on general hardware failure based on the error reports sent by literally millions of consumer PCs. Although the results weren't pa

Microsoft did a metaanalysis on general hardware failure based on the error reports sent by literally millions of consumer PCs. Although the results weren't particularly interesting (Hard drives fail the most, with rates consistent with what backblaze observed in the posted link), I was impressed by the sheer volume of data available to the study. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nightingale.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nighting...