Google on hard drive failures

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On 2/21/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
>
> At 01:02 PM 2/21/2007, you wrote:
> >There's an even *more* interesting paper on this from a CMU post-doc
> (math warning...lots of statistics) that seems to blow away many (if not
> all) assumptions about drive failures/quality/raid/etc.
>
> I saw this a few days ago but thought I shouldn't post because
> it would be off-topic.
>
> - John
>
>

Indeed...and I was criticized for posting a OT thread on this list before
and here comes a OT thread that is openly discussed...what gives??? Why was
I flamed while this guy is not? I just don't get it...:(