Where can I go for hard disk and storage-related performance
I like this site:
“This paper may be of interest – study done by Google on over 100,000 drives they have/had in service. When they fail, why they fail, what correlates with failure.” http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf – from email to UC-CSC list by UCI colleague Harry Mangalam
Aug. 12, 2009 followup taken from email to UC-CSC list by UCI colleague Harry Mangalam
“A byline in Linux Mag alerted me to this examination of a paper that might be
of interest if you’re thinking of the best / most efficient way to use your
storage systems (and who isn’t?).”
The Linux Mag blurb:
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7464/1.html
The referrent article:
http://tinyurl.com/ogn68g
The original paper
http://tinyurl.com/olxe9p (56 pages!)
Associated data and presentations:
http://fsbench.filesystems.org/