Disk drive vintage and its effect on reliability

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 163-167

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

^a Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

^b Network Appliance   (United States)

Author keywords

Date of Manufacture; Disk drive; Field Reliability; Hazard Rate; MTBF; Vintage; Weibull Analysis

Indexed keywords

DATE OF MANUFACTURE; DISK DRIVE; FIELD RELIABILITY; HAZARD RATE; VINTAGE; WEIBULL ANALYSIS; HAZARD RATES; MTBF;

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC MOTORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; DRIVES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; MANUFACTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SHIPS;

DRIVES; DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 2342640746     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. IDEMA Standards, "Specification of Hard Disk Drive Reliability", document number R2-98.
2. Abernathy, Robert B. "The New Weibull Handbook," Fourth Edition, November 2000.
3. Elerath, J. G., and Shah, S., "Disk Drive Reliability Case Study: Dependence Upon Head Fly-Height and Quantity of Heads," Proc. Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symp., January 2003.