Comments on: Offline After Nearly 7 Billion Rotations http://thecodergeek.com/post/186 A day (or more) in the life of a CS & Math student... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Kochanski http://thecodergeek.com/post/186/comment-page-1#comment-341 Greg Kochanski Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:52:43 +0000 http://thecodergeek.com/?p=186#comment-341 Palimpsest may not be as awesome as you think it is. While I'm glad that it seemed to have helped you, the whole idea of warning against disk failures is a bit dubious. Disks don't fail too often, after all. If you balance the cost of unnecessary disk replacements against the cost of failures, you might not actually come out ahead. I have a blog post analyzing this from a statistical point of view at http://kochanski.org/blog/?p=244 . Palimpsest may not be as awesome as you think it is. While I’m glad that it seemed to have helped you, the whole idea of warning against disk failures is a bit dubious. Disks don’t fail too often, after all.

If you balance the cost of unnecessary disk replacements against the cost of failures, you might not actually come out ahead. I have a blog post analyzing this from a statistical point of view at http://kochanski.org/blog/?p=244 .

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