Useful and interesting links
Smartmontools resources
Monitoring tools working with smartmontools
Other open source hard disk monitoring projects
- Studies / Background on reliability
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Vendor disk
failure rates: Myth or metric?, Mary Brandel in Computerworld, April 2008.
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Hard Disk Drives:
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in ACM Queue vol 5, no 6,
pg 28-37, September 2007.
- From the USENIX FAST Conferences
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Are Disks the
Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure
Characteristics, Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in 6th USENIX
Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), pg 111-125, February 2008.
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Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?,
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies (FAST '07), pg 1-16, February 2007.
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Failure Trends in
a Large Disk Drive Population, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André
Barroso (Google Inc.) in 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
pg 17-28, February 2007.
- Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More
MTBF's, Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)
in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00.
- From the Seagate Corporation
- From the
UCSD SMART Project
- Useful references on SMART and the ATA/ATAPI standards