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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