Terabyte SATA drives likely contain single bit errors
by Vinay Gupta • September 9, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
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.