On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:50:36AM -0800, Randy Katz wrote:

> Hard Disks have bad batches, I guess part of the manufacturing
> process?  I have seen them fail very quickly in a certain time
> period and then not fail at all for a while, very interesting,
> caution!

That's typical of the bathtub curve failure model.  It's why you want
to do burn-in testing with badblocks or the like.

http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue21/hottopics21.htm

- Morty

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