[TUHS] Irwin 285

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Larry McVoy, who wrote on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:38:25AM -0800 ..
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:15:57AM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:34:09 +0100
> > Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > recoverable read error rate I presume.
> > No. NON-recoverable read error rate: 1 per 10^14 bits.
> > 
> > And this is for light desktop use. Heavy IO on the disk may increase
> > failure rate. At least this is written in the technical data sheet of
> > the drive. WD drives are not that much better: 1 per 10^15 bits.
> 
> You guys are funny.  I've been doing backups for at least 15 years

We aim to please :)

> and I can tell you story after story about tape failures that
> happened to me personally (anyone remember the lovely exabyte 8200,
> "fondly" remembered as the write-only device?).  On the other hand,

I had an 8200.... :-P

> disks work pretty well and when they fail, they fail in little 
> chunks and you can almost always get the rest of the data.

Most often yes, unless you have production batch issues, like HDA
contamination etc.  Can take out RAIDsets at a time, given that they
typically are built from the same production batch drives..

> For the data I really care about, our digital photo collection, it's
> all stored in BitKeeper's so-called binary asset management (BAM).
> All the data is CRC-ed, it's all replicated, and if anything goes

Replication does it, I agree!

> bad the bad data can easily be replaced from any of the other
> (populated) replicas.  I periodically run "bk bam check" which 
> goes through all the data and checks the crc's and have yet to
> see an error.  Been doing that for years.
> 
> Tape.  Bah.  You can keep it, I'm OK with disk.

Hihi..
	Wilko

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