A study of soft error consequences in hard disk drives

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tsai, Timothy ^a   Theera Ampornpunt, Nawanol ^b   Bagchi, Saurabh ^b  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data mining; failure prediction; hard disk drive; hard errors; soft errors

Indexed keywords

DATA LOSS; DISK DRIVE; FAILURE PREDICTION; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; HARD DISK DRIVE; MULTIPLE LAYERS; PREVENTIVE ACTION; SOFT ERROR; SOFT ERROR RATE; WARNING TIME;

DATA MINING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ERROR CORRECTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 84866668816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2012.6263936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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