{"id":1255,"date":"2006-05-09T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/hard-disk-reliability\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T17:42:07","slug":"hard-disk-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/hard-disk-reliability\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Disk Reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jameswiebe.blogspot.com\/\">James Wiebe<\/a> analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiebetech.com\/whitepapers\/Storage_Enclosure_Reliability.pdf\">relative reliabilities<\/a> of different hard drive configurations (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/blog\/index.php\/shadedgrey\/enclosure_reliability\/\">Dave Nanian<\/a>). The short summary is what you&rsquo;d expect&mdash;RAID is good, mirroring is better, and non-redundant multi-drive enclosures are bad&mdash;but Wiebe&rsquo;s white paper will give some insight into <em>how<\/em> good and bad. These are relative reliabilities because Wiebe based them on a 2%\/year Hard Drive Failure Rate, which he made up based on his experience because, as he notes, published \r\nMTBF figures don&rsquo;t take into account a variety of real-world problems that can cause drive failure.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wiebe analyzes the relative reliabilities of different hard drive configurations (via Dave Nanian). The short summary is what you&rsquo;d expect&mdash;RAID is good, mirroring is better, and non-redundant multi-drive enclosures are bad&mdash;but Wiebe&rsquo;s white paper will give some insight into how good and bad. These are relative reliabilities because Wiebe based them on a 2%\/year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}