disks

[bgbeuning]

This is an off topic reply to a posting in the skylake issue thread.

Originally Posted by Madpoo

it was only the WD drives that were dying.

A number of years ago Google did a statistical analysis of which
disk SMART parameters predicted disk failure.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/...k_failures.pdf

Surprisingly temperature was not correlated with failure rate.
They did find one drive manufacturer had more failures than others
but they did not give a name.

On the other hand, shouting in your data center can affect your disks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

[Mark Rose]

Backblaze regularly releases similar stuff:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...ility-q3-2015/