Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2007), pp. 17-29 It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it in hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is relatively little published work on the failure patterns of disk drives, and the key factors that affect their lifetime. Most available data are
