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Terabyte SATA drives likely contain single bit errors

http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200809#08

They’re so big, there are likely to be problems on any given drive (56%) which is (the author notes) a big issue for RAID.

Seems like exactly the sort of thing ZFS was designed to combat.

This was written by Vinay Gupta. Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, at 12:52 pm. Filed under Science. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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