Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability - SlashdotPosted by Zonk on Sunday February 18, 2007 @12:18AM from the fun-saturday-night-reading dept. oski4410 writes "The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring f
