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Article #87Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
From: Paul
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:51
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:51
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Franc Zabkar wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:24:53 +0100, "Centre Parting"
> <nokia.account@ntlworld.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>> The Google study presumably polled a lot of PC users about HDD failures.
>
> The Google study concentrated on Google's own huge installed base of
> hard drives spanning several manufacturers, models, and generations.
>
> Nobody was polled.
>
> Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population:
> http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
>
> - Franc Zabkar
What struck me about their study, is the word "humidity"
doesn't appear anywhere in the report. And humidity is a
factor in disk reliability.
Paul
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