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related - disk failure rates

related - disk failure rates

Posted Nov 8, 2007 20:09 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289)
Parent article: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

An earlier article on LWN that may be of interest to anyone experiencing failures on laptops: KHB: Real-world disk failure rates: surprises, surprises, and more surprises, by Valerie Henson. "SMART errors do mean the drive is more likely to fail, but a third of drives die with no warning at all!"


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