On 4/6/2011 19:20, Jim Henderson wrote:
> they consider a single reported *recoverable* bit
> error on a drive in their cabinets as reason enough to replace the
> drive.

Google's whitepapaer basically said "Nothing says when a drive is going to 
die, but you have a +30% chance of it dying in the next six months if you 
get any read errors at all, recoverable or not."

In particular, all that S.M.A.R.T. stuff was stupid.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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