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Re:An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million C... by zipdog on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @10:33AM (#4162019)
When Google did a massive analysis of hard-drive failures they also didn't publish manufacturer names, because they felt that it would tarnish the company name when it might just be a production run
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Re:An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million C... by starpilot on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:15PM (#4162673)
Actually, they were just keeping their cards close to their chest:

> However, in this paper, we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage due to the proprietary nature of these data.

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

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Re:An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million C... by acqq on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @11:34AM (#4162429)
Yes, such statistics would have to be limited to the exact models analyzed, I can imagine the results in the next generation of the products turning other way around.
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