Studies on media failure rates

Everybody here is talking about storage failures in one way or another.

What these discussions miss is solid, objective data on media failure rates.

I'll start with the Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population article from Google, and Disk failures in the real world from CMU. See also the less scientific Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive? article for Tom's hardware.

Please contribute! Links to studies on tape and DVD/Bluray media are especially welcome.

See also: Comparative lifetimes of digital media

wizzard0

• storage
• lifetime
• storage-media
• reliability
• mttf

Comments

• gmcgath: I can't figure out what your question is. This is an area for asking questions, not a general discussion forum.
• Robert Cartaino: This is a great question, but for reasons that are not immediately obvious, I'm going to have to close this as unusually broad. We're here to provide answers to questions about digital preservation, not questions about where to find things on the Internet. See more on this here — we want to have answers, not links to answers, on Stack Exchange.
• lechlukasz: The title would also have to be changed, I've understand it as how many students are failing on media faculty...