Many Eyes. Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong. Update II: NetApp has responded.
I’m hoping other vendors will as well. Which do you believe? Costly FC and SCSI drives are more reliable than cheap SATA drives.RAID 5 is safe because the odds of two drives failing in the same RAID set are so low.After infant mortality, drives are highly reliable until they reach the end of their useful life. 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies - Paper. Pp. 1–16 of the Proceedings Bianca Schroeder Garth A.
Gibson Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University {bianca, garth}@cs.cmu.edu Abstract Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million.