Submission + - Hard Disk Study Leaves Google Surprised
bugg_tb writes: The BBC is reporting on a study performed by Google engineers on regular 'off the shelf' hard drives that Google uses for caching data and how they perform and the likelyhood of them to fail. The author states: "We expected to notice a very strong and consistent correlation between high utilisation and higher failure rates. "However our results appear to paint a more complex picture. First, only very young and very old age groups appear to show the expected behaviour."
The report concludes that: there was a clear trend showing "that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates".
"Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend."
You can see the full report here