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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by djsumdog on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:55PM (#16989317)
Pretty interesting. I like how the author talks about how it may be too early to get useful data yet since their non-helium drives have been online for much longer.

It'd be interesting to look at the numbers again in two years and see if the guess is correct.

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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by atYevP on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:05PM (#16989401)
Yev from Backblaze here -> we're going to keep an eye on them and follow up on the stats so that we can eventually get there!
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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by tux3 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:26PM (#16989601)
If the AFR numbers follow some bathtub-shaped curve, would it make sense to use that curve to "normalize" the failure rates according to drive days?

I always wonder if the rates we see for each drives are really comparable, since they all have different ages, and whether that's representative of the average lifetime AFR.

That might be an interesting column to add to the reports!

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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by atYevP on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:49PM (#16990295)
This might be interesting -> https://hackernoon.com/applying-medical-statistics-to-the-ba... it's more "time based" - a medical statistical model applied to our drive stats!
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