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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.

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It is surprising that this article does not cover the effect of the highly redundant block encoding and ecoding, which has a major effect on the actual data reliability experierenced by end-users.

 

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