HDD study finds little correlation between temperatures and failure rates Online backup provider Backblaze has over 100 petabytes of storage spread across more than 34,000 hard drives. The company has shared some interesting reliability data based on those drives, including manufacturer-specific failure rates. Today, it published new information examining the correlation between failure rates and drive temperatures. In short, there isn't much of one—at least not with most of the drives in Backblaze's environment. Backblaze's data center is loaded with storage pods that house 45 drives each. These pods are generally populated with the same kinds of drives, and the cooling appears to be ... http://techreport.com/news/26445/hdd...-failure-rates |
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