Are disks the dominant contributor for storage failures? A comprehensive study of storage subsystem failure characteristics

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Jiang, Weihang ^a,c   Hu, Chongfeng ^a,c   Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a,c   Kanevsky, Arkady ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk failures; Failure characteristics; Storage subsystem; Storage system

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; DISK FAILURES; FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; FAILURE RATES; PROTOCOL STACKS; REDUNDANT INTERCONNECTS; STORAGE COMPONENTS; STORAGE SUBSYSTEM; STORAGE SYSTEM;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS);

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 59449086113     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1416944.1416946     Document Type: Article

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