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    Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Study covers millions of drive days over six years using 10 different drive models.
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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    at the end mechanical drives have a higher tendency to fail.

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    interesting I'll have a read of that later.

    Quote Originally Posted by lumireleon View Post
    at the end mechanical drives have a higher tendency to fail.
    not sure it's that clear cut.

    While flash drives offer lower field replacement rates than hard disk drives, they have a significantly higher rate of problems that can impact the user, such as uncorrectable errors.

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    "Between 20 and 63 per cent of drives..." "Between 30 and 80 per cent of drives..."

    How is that useful data? is it 20 or 63%? is it 30% or 80%. Might as well say between 1 and 100% of drives had issues!

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    interesting I'll have a read of that later.



    not sure it's that clear cut.
    I think it basically says: spinning drives fail more often but SSDs corrupt more data.

    Corruption is always worse than failure.

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunbust3r View Post
    "Between 20 and 63 per cent of drives..." "Between 30 and 80 per cent of drives..."

    How is that useful data? is it 20 or 63%? is it 30% or 80%. Might as well say between 1 and 100% of drives had issues!
    Margins like that just make the results sound unreliable.

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunbust3r View Post
    "Between 20 and 63 per cent of drives..." "Between 30 and 80 per cent of drives..."

    How is that useful data? is it 20 or 63%? is it 30% or 80%. Might as well say between 1 and 100% of drives had issues!
    Glad I'm not the only one confused by that lol.

    I won't pretend I FULLY understand the report, but the bits I do are pretty much what I knew anyway :/

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Quote Originally Posted by Froggywoggy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Gunbust3r View Post
    "Between 20 and 63 per cent of drives..." "Between 30 and 80 per cent of drives..."

    How is that useful data? is it 20 or 63%? is it 30% or 80%. Might as well say between 1 and 100% of drives had issues!
    Margins like that just make the results sound unreliable.
    It might be the different flash-based drives, e.g. one type had 20% and another 63%. In which case there's nothing wrong with those numbers.

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    Re: Google datacentre SSD study offers surprising conclusions

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunbust3r View Post
    "Between 20 and 63 per cent of drives..." "Between 30 and 80 per cent of drives..."

    How is that useful data? is it 20 or 63%? is it 30% or 80%. Might as well say between 1 and 100% of drives had issues!
    I was just thinking that.

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