Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)
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How to Analyze Smart Stats for Failure
Some drives just fail. They don't give you any indication at all. And we've seen that and roughly, roughly 25% of the drives we see, at least the last time I looked at all of this, just failed with no indication in smart stats at all. They just rolled over and died. There doesn't seem to be anything in relation to a brand or a model or a size or how long they're in. It just seems to be they get there. We see that happen almost every drive has that at some point or another. But what happens is if you see the favorite way to look at it over a year and there's 52 of them -- 52 is a high
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