Predicting archival life of removable hard disk drives

Archiving 2008 - Final Program and Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 188-192

  Williams, Paul ^a   Rosenthal, David S H ^b   Roussopoulos, Mema ^c   Georgis, Steve ^a  

^a ProStor Systems Inc   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTS; ARCHIVAL MEDIA; HARD DISK DRIVE; HARD DISKS; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; STORAGE MEDIA; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY;

DRIVES; RELIABILITY; TESTING;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 67449122819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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