david@xxxxxxx writes: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Ron wrote: >> Yep. Folks should google "bath tub curve of statistical failure" or similar. >> Basically, always burn in your drives for at least 1/2 a day before using >> them in a production or mission critical role. > for this and your first point, please go and look at the google and cmu > studies. unless the vendors did the burn-in before delivering the drives > to the sites that installed them, there was no 'infant mortality' spike on > the drives (both studies commented on this, they expected to find one) It seems hard to believe that the vendors themselves wouldn't burn in the drives for half a day, if that's all it takes to eliminate a large fraction of infant mortality. The savings in return processing and customer goodwill would surely justify the electricity they'd use. regards, tom lane
