Understanding latent sector errors and how to protect against them

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Schroeder, Bianca ^a   Damouras, Sotirios ^a   Gill, Phillipa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data loss; Failure data; Failure modeling; Field data; Latent sector errors; Parity; Redundancy; Scrubbing; Storage reliability

Indexed keywords

DATA LOSS; FAILURE DATA; FAILURE MODELING; FIELD DATA; LATENT SECTOR ERRORS; PARITY; SCRUBBING; STORAGE RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ERRORS; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77957569492     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1837915.1837917     Document Type: Article

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