On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Avleen Vig <avl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
As an ex-Google employee who's read the full report here I'm not sure what you're referring to either. P