On Thu Jan 5 08:28:57 EST 2012, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:20:34PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > And finally, didn't the increase in size of the disks, with > >no decrease > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > no increase, of course. If probability of a failure for a sector is P, > increasing the number of sectors increases the probability of disk > failure.
sector failure != disk failure. disk failure is generally due to the heads &c, and generally independent of the size of the device. - erik
