[ANNOUNCE] Log your dead hard disk drives here

[ANNOUNCE] Log your dead hard disk drives here

[Andrew Clayton]

Hi,

In an earlier message 

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.2/0765.html

It was suggested that someone should set up a web page to track all
these dead hard drives that seem so common today.

Well, goto the link below and you can log your dead drive and view all
the other submissions. Yep it's all pretty basic just now and the data
is just stored in a CSV text file.

Anyways if you think this is useful head along to 

http://digital-domain.net/fscked-disk/

it doesn't really need much explaining ;).


Cheers,

Andrew Clayton

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Log your dead hard disk drives here

[Barry K. Nathan]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:09:54AM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> Anyways if you think this is useful head along to 
> 
> http://digital-domain.net/fscked-disk/
> 
> it doesn't really need much explaining ;).

What does your site do that the StorageReview.com Reliability Survey
doesn't? (i.e., the SR.com survey has been around for a while, why do we
need another?)

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Log your dead hard disk drives here

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 02:48, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:09:54AM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > Anyways if you think this is useful head along to 
> > 
> > http://digital-domain.net/fscked-disk/
> > 
> > it doesn't really need much explaining ;).
> 
> What does your site do that the StorageReview.com Reliability Survey
> doesn't? (i.e., the SR.com survey has been around for a while, why do we
> need another?)
> 

Perhaps we don't, I wasn't aware of the above site. Looking at it
though, mine is obviously much more to the point and is targeting one
specific area, in that it is just logging drive failures.

I'll let the people decide if they find it useful and want to use it or
not.....


> -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>


--
Andrew Clayton

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Log your dead hard disk drives here

[Peter Benie]

Andrew Clayton writes:
 > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 02:48, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
 > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:09:54AM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
 > > > http://digital-domain.net/fscked-disk/
 > > 
 > > What does your site do that the StorageReview.com Reliability Survey
 > > doesn't? (i.e., the SR.com survey has been around for a while, why do we
 > > need another?)
 > 
 > Perhaps we don't, I wasn't aware of the above site. Looking at it
 > though, mine is obviously much more to the point and is targeting one
 > specific area, in that it is just logging drive failures.

I'm not convinced that you are collecting enough information to get
useful statistics, in particular, you lack any data about drives that
haven't failed yet.

Suppose that there are two vendors sell drives with identical
characteristics, one of which sells twice as many drives as the
other. In your statistics, you will give the appearance that the more
popular drive performs less well because you see twice as many
failures.

A better approach would be for people to register their drives with
you when they are new, and then to inform you when the drive fails or
is otherwise disposed of. The problem here would be to keep track of
the drives to ensure that failures really do get logged.

Peter