Server class disk drives: How reliable are they?

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 151-156

  Elerath, Jon G ^a   Shah, Sandeep ^a,b  

^a Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

^b Network Appliance   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Field data; System architecture; Vintage; Weibull

Indexed keywords

DISK DRIVE; FIELD DATA; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; VINTAGE; WEIBULL; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

ACCELERATION; ACTIVATION ENERGY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DRIVES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HARD DISK STORAGE; MAINTAINABILITY; MANUFACTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SALES; SPECIFICATIONS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SERVERS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 2342502396     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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