From: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA/SATA Disk Reliability paper
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:42:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DA19C8.8000002@eyal.emu.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702191426.16567.a1426z@gawab.com>
Disks are sealed, and a dessicant is present in each to keep humidity down.
If you ever open a disk drive (e.g. for the magnets, or the mirror quality
platters, or for fun) then you can see the dessicant sachet.
cheers
Al Boldi wrote:
> Richard Scobie wrote:
>
>>Thought this paper may be of interest. A study done by Google on over
>>100,000 drives they have/had in service.
>>
>>http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>
>
> Interesting link. They seem to point out that smart not necessarily warns of
> pending failure. This is probably worse than not having smart at all, as it
> gives you the illusion of safety.
>
> If there is one thing to watch out for, it is "dew".
>
> I remember video machines sensing for dew, so do any drives sense for "dew"?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Al
--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-18 18:50 PATA/SATA Disk Reliability paper Richard Scobie
2007-02-19 11:26 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-19 21:42 ` Eyal Lebedinsky [this message]
2007-02-20 12:15 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-22 22:27 ` Nix
2007-02-22 22:30 ` Nix
2007-02-22 23:30 ` Stephen C Woods
2007-02-23 18:22 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-24 22:27 ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 11:22 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-25 17:40 ` Mark Hahn
[not found] ` <200702252057.22963.a1426z@gawab.com>
2007-02-25 19:58 ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 21:07 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-25 22:14 ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 22:46 ` Benjamin Davenport
2007-02-25 23:58 ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-27 19:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-25 19:02 ` Richard Scobie
2007-02-27 19:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-26 14:15 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2007-02-26 17:46 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-20 3:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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