Comments on: Calculating Mean Time To Data Loss (and probability of silent data corruption) http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147 In this blog, hear from Zetta's founders and leaders about cloud computing, storage and data management best practices and Zetta Enterprise Cloud Storage technology. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:51:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Hosting Primary, Unstructured Enterprise Data in the Cloud – Part 4: Comprehensive data integrity/protection « Zetta Scalabytes Blog http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147&cpage=1#comment-300 Hosting Primary, Unstructured Enterprise Data in the Cloud – Part 4: Comprehensive data integrity/protection « Zetta Scalabytes Blog Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:40 +0000 http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147#comment-300 [...] A dirty little secret in the storage community is that data corruption happens all the time – through the relative rate of corruption seems low on its face, the increasing scale of data stored guarantees that corruption events are always occurring. For more on this topic at a deeper technical level, along with a calculator to help you gauge your own data integrity risk, please see JW’s post on Calculating Mean Time To Data Loss (and probability of silent data corruption). [...] [...] A dirty little secret in the storage community is that data corruption happens all the time – through the relative rate of corruption seems low on its face, the increasing scale of data stored guarantees that corruption events are always occurring. For more on this topic at a deeper technical level, along with a calculator to help you gauge your own data integrity risk, please see JW’s post on Calculating Mean Time To Data Loss (and probability of silent data corruption). [...]

]]> By: The Petabyte Challenge… « Cloud Storage: Keep it in the Cloud http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147&cpage=1#comment-36 The Petabyte Challenge… « Cloud Storage: Keep it in the Cloud Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:54 +0000 http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147#comment-36 [...] This topic is discussed by Zetta CTO Jeff Whitehead in a recent blog entry. Whitehead’s excellent description of the problem and how to analyze it includes a calculator to help estimate the probability of random disk [...] [...] This topic is discussed by Zetta CTO Jeff Whitehead in a recent blog entry. Whitehead’s excellent description of the problem and how to analyze it includes a calculator to help estimate the probability of random disk [...]

]]> By: Jeff Whitehead http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147&cpage=1#comment-29 Jeff Whitehead Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:29:50 +0000 http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147#comment-29 Referenced in the spreadsheet, but also worth checking out: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/raid_recommendations_space_vs_mttdl http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/01/raid-reliability-calculations http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ Referenced in the spreadsheet, but also worth checking out:

http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/raid_recommendations_space_vs_mttdl
http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/01/raid-reliability-calculations
http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/

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