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Reliability¶
Laptop Reliability¶
- 2011 PC World Laptop Reliability Survey from 63,000 readers:
- 22.6% had signifcant problems during the product's lifetime
- Of which...
- 19% had OS problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
- 18% had HDD problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
- 10% PSU problems ~1 in 50 of all laptops
PC World 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/876qza5
Hard Disk Failures¶
- Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population
- Usenix conference on File and Storage Technologies 2007 (FAST '07)
- Eduardo Pinheiro & Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Google Inc.
- Data collected from over 100,000 disk drives at Google
- As part of repairs procedures:
- ~13% of disk drives replaced over 3 years
- ~20% of disk drives replaced over 4 years
Article: http://tinyurl.com/octz6b