On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen<a...@develooper.com> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2009, at 13:49, <duncan.garl...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> Can somebody please point me in the direction of some authorative >> reliability statistics for server hardware, preferably including add-ons >> such as disc arrays? > > Google has a paper on that stuff for individual disks. In my experience > failure rates for everything else is much lower (but each failure of course > is more hassle): > > http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
All is not what it seems. Take this with a spoon of salt.