Reliability analysis of disk drive failure mechanisms

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 226-231

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

^a Network Appliance   (United States)

^b Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Error messages; Failure Mechanism; Field data; Hazard rate; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DISK DRIVES; ERROR MESSAGES; FAILURE MECHANISMS; FIELD DATA; HAZARD RATE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; FAILURE MECHANISM;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HAZARDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DATA ACQUISITION; FIRMWARE; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MECHANICAL DRIVES;

RELIABILITY; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 27744473438     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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.
4. Shah, S., and Elerath, J. G., "Disk Drive Vintage and Its Effects on Reliability," Proc. Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symp., January 2004.