[TriLUG] Computer stores] - Disk failures

[Jimmy Dorff]

I was at Dell Storage Forum a couple months ago. One interesting note 
from EqualLogic. They said they "stress test" each new drive for 4 
weeks. They said that the drives which survive the 4 week test generally 
last much better in the field. This is the infant mortality phenomenon 
mentioned in the google study of course. I think a ~month of testing was 
an interesting idea, which one could apply to their own hardware.

Along those lines, has anyone played with the "breakin" linux distro for 
hardware testing ?

http://advancedclustering.com/software/breakin.html

-Jimmy


On 07/27/2011 03:35 PM, Derek Linz wrote:
> I almost forgot, here's one of the few large-scale research papers on hard
> drive failure, published by Google, not exactly what you're talking about but
> a good read none-the-less.
>
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3XF7z2bzplNNGNhZDE2NzQtNDllOC00NDBlLTg1NjgtMzE0YzNkYzUyZDI3&hl=en_US
>