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Opinion: Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007By Valerie Henson. Article from Computerworld.
Excerpts:
Their first major result was that the real-world failure rate was much higher than manufacturers’ estimates: an average of 3% vs. the estimated 0.5% to 0.9%.
… for an individual user for whom losing his disk is a disaster, replacing the disk at the first sign of a SMART error makes eminent sense.
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