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| 2 | |
| 3 | = Recommended Links = |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ==== Monitoring tools working with smartmontools ==== |
| 6 | [http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ Munin][[BR]] |
| 7 | [http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/About GSmartControl] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | ==== Other open source hard disk monitoring projects ==== |
| 10 | [http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html CrystalDiskInfo] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ==== Studies / Background on reliability ==== |
| 13 | [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073158 Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?], |
| 14 | Mary Brandel in ''Computerworld'', April 2008.[[BR]] |
| 15 | [http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=506 Hard Disk Drives: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly], |
| 16 | Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in ''ACM Queue vol 5, no 6'', pg 28-37, September 2007.[[BR]] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * From the USENIX FAST Conferences |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/index.html Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics], Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in ''6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)'', pg 111-125, February 2008. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?], Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in ''5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)'', pg 1-16, February 2007. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pinheiro_html/index.html Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population], Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso (Google Inc.) in ''5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)'', pg 17-28, February 2007. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | ''Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More |
| 27 | MTBF's'', Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)[[BR]] |
| 28 | in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability |
| 29 | Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * From the Seagate Corporation |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/enhanced_smart.pdf Enhanced SMART - Get SMART For Reliability][[BR]] |
| 34 | [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/smart_u8.pdf Playing it SMART] ( [http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/smart.html HTML Version] )[[BR]] |
| 35 | [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/Enhanced_DST_Tech_Paper.pdf Enhanced Drive Self-Test][[BR]] |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * From the [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/ UCSD SMART Project] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/HamerlySmartPaper.pdf Bayesian Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives][[BR]] |
| 40 | [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf Improved Disk-Drive Failure Warnings] |
| 41 | |
3 | | |
4 | | <h3><a name="smartmontools"></a><strong>Smartmontools resources</strong></h3> |
5 | | <ul class="Square"> |
6 | | <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">Smartmontools Homepage</a></li> |
7 | | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/">SourceForge's Project Page</a></li> |
8 | | |
9 | | <li><a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools">SVN repository</a></li> |
10 | | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/">Trac / Wiki</a></li> |
11 | | </ul> |
12 | | <hr /> |
13 | | |
14 | | <h3><a name="tools-with-smartmontools"></a><strong>Monitoring tools working with smartmontools</strong></h3> |
15 | | <ul class="Square"> |
16 | | <li><a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/"> |
17 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Munin</a></li> |
18 | | |
19 | | <li><a href="http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/About"> |
20 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />GSmartControl</a></li> |
21 | | |
22 | | </ul> |
23 | | <hr /> |
24 | | |
25 | | <h3><a name="other-tools"></a><strong>Other open source hard disk monitoring projects</strong></h3> |
26 | | <ul class="Square"> |
27 | | <li><a href="http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html"> |
28 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />CrystalDiskInfo</a></li> |
29 | | |
30 | | </ul> |
31 | | <hr /> |
32 | | |
33 | | <ul class="High"> |
34 | | <li><a name="reliability"></a><strong>Studies / Background on reliability</strong></li> |
35 | | </ul> |
36 | | <ul class="Circle"> |
37 | | <li> |
38 | | <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073158"> |
39 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Vendor disk |
40 | | failure rates: Myth or metric?</a>, Mary Brandel in <i>Computerworld</i>, April 2008. |
41 | | </li> |
42 | | |
43 | | <li> |
44 | | <a href="http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=506"> |
45 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Hard Disk Drives: |
46 | | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</a>, Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in <i>ACM Queue vol 5, no 6</i>, |
47 | | pg 28-37, September 2007.<br /><br /> |
48 | | </li> |
49 | | <li>From the USENIX FAST Conferences |
50 | | <ul class="Circle"> |
51 | | <li> |
52 | | |
53 | | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/index.html"> |
54 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Are Disks the |
55 | | Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure |
56 | | Characteristics</a>, Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in <i>6th USENIX |
57 | | Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)</i>, pg 111-125, February 2008. |
58 | | </li> |
59 | | <li> |
60 | | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html"> |
61 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " /> |
62 | | Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?</a>, |
63 | | Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in<i> 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage |
64 | | Technologies (FAST '07)</i>, pg 1-16, February 2007. |
65 | | </li> |
66 | | |
67 | | <li> |
68 | | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pinheiro_html/index.html"> |
69 | | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Failure Trends in |
70 | | a Large Disk Drive Population</a>, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André |
71 | | Barroso (Google Inc.) in <i>5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)</i>, |
72 | | pg 17-28, February 2007.<br /><br /> |
73 | | </li> |
74 | | </ul> |
75 | | |
76 | | </li> |
77 | | <li><u>Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More |
78 | | MTBF's</u>, Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)<br /> |
79 | | <font size="-1">in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability |
80 | | Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00.</font><br /> |
81 | | <br /></li> |
82 | | <li>From the Seagate Corporation |
83 | | <ul class="Circle"> |
84 | | <!-- <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/docs/disc/drive_reliability.pdf" target="_blank"> |
85 | | Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronics Systems</a></li> --> |
86 | | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/enhanced_smart.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced |
87 | | SMART - Get SMART For Reliability</a></li> |
88 | | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/smart_u8.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Playing |
89 | | it SMART</a> |
90 | | |
91 | | (<a href="http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/smart.html" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />HTML Version</a>)</li> |
92 | | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/Enhanced_DST_Tech_Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced Drive Self-Test</a><br /> |
93 | | <br /></li> |
94 | | </ul> |
95 | | </li> |
96 | | |
97 | | <li>From the <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />UCSD SMART Project</a> |
98 | | |
99 | | <ul class="Circle"> |
100 | | <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/HamerlySmartPaper.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Bayesian |
101 | | Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives</a></li> |
102 | | <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Improved |
103 | | Disk-Drive Failure Warnings</a></li> |
104 | | </ul> |
105 | | </li> |
106 | | </ul> |
107 | | <hr /> |