Appears in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’07), February 2007 Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andr´e Barroso Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 {edpin,wolf,luiz}@google.com Abstract It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is