Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The article discusses computer hard-disk drive (HDD) reliability, examining and describing new HDD technologies and increased capacities that create new categories of failure modes. HDD reliability has been the significant factor in data storage, the author states. Other topics include the use of re...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 38 - 46
Main Author:	ELERATH, JON
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2009
Subjects:	Data disk drives Reliability (Personality trait) Computer input-output equipment Computer storage devices RAID (Computer science) Redundancy in engineering
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost