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h2. Reliability
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h3. Laptop Reliability
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* 2011 PC World Laptop Reliability Survey from 63,000 readers:
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** 22.6% had signifcant problems during the product's lifetime
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** Of which...
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*** 19% had OS problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
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*** 18% had HDD problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
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*** 10% PSU problems ~1 in 50 of all laptops
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PC World 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/876qza5
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h3. Hard Disk Failures
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* Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population
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** Usenix conference on File and Storage Technologies 2007 (FAST '07)
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** Eduardo Pinheiro & Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Google Inc.
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* Data collected from over 100,000 disk drives at Google
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* As part of repairs procedures:
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** ~13% of disk drives replaced over 3 years
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** ~20% of disk drives replaced over 4 years
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Article: http://tinyurl.com/octz6b
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[[Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population|More info]]