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From: Mark A. Nordman
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 04:36
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Greetings,

I'm looking for information about disk drive failures.

I've heard there is a company which accumulates statistics
about disk drives which have actually failed (not projected
failures) and have been returned for replacement - sort of
a "reverse" Dataquest market share report.

Specifically I'm most interested in 3.5 inch SCSI drives,
but I would certainly be interested in any summary which
contained this category.

I realize this may sound like a nutty request, but I've come
to the conclusion that manufacturer MTBF numbers have so many
caveats that they're of little use.

If anyone out knows about this company, or any other source
for this type of actual disk failure information, I would
greatly appreciate it if you would contact me. My email
address is mnordman@voyager.net .

Thanks for your help.

Mark
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From: "Mark A. Nordman" <mnordman@vixa.voyager.net>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc
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Date: 5 Jan 1996 04:36:53 GMT
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