1. It's notorious that hard drives have a higher failure rate at the beginning of their lives than in the middle (see bathtub curve [0]). So it's not absurd to test them hard early on before writing any useful data and to do an early RMA.
2. The failure rate on drives is low enough that his methodology may be right but he still never has any failure in his life. Doesn't it make insane.
I once bought a new 1TB Drive when they were fairly new. MOVED about 500gb if data to the new drive. Checked it. Seemed fine. Turned computer off and went to bed.
Next day the HDD didn’t turn on. Completely dead. :( I’ve never had a failure since but I backup everything now.
The first time I learned about burnin, it was because the drives for our RAID array showed up three days before we were supposed to start experimenting. Two of the ten were DOA. FED-EX got us replacements in two days. One of those was dead.
So then I started doing math on MTBF and lots of drives and things looked bleak. Just a couple years later MTBF had gone way up and continued to climb for a while after, but at that particular moment it was something like eight months between failure of you had any more drives than we had and just accelerated from there.
insanity | inˈsanədē |
noun
the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness
I'm not sure when the definition of obsessive-compulsive started being used to describe insanity (it's been going on for at least a decade), but I don't like it (and cringe every time I hear someone repeat it).
Me too, one could argue that practicing anything is "doing the same thing over and over expecting different (getting better) results"
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I too have switched to HGST thanks to the backblaze stats.
1. It's notorious that hard drives have a higher failure rate at the beginning of their lives than in the middle (see bathtub curve [0]). So it's not absurd to test them hard early on before writing any useful data and to do an early RMA.
2. The failure rate on drives is low enough that his methodology may be right but he still never has any failure in his life. Doesn't it make insane.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve