Does hard disk drive failure rate enter steady-state after one year?

2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 356-361

  Sun, Feng Bin ^a   Zhang, Shaoang ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub curve; Field return data; Generalized gamma; Hard disk drive; Time to steady state

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL FAILURE RATE (AFR); BATHTUB CURVES; FIELD RETURN DATA; GENERALIZED GAMMA;

CURVE FITTING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 34547335089     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2007.328138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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