# Where can I go for hard disk and storage-related performance

I like this site:

[Storage Review](http://www.storagereview.com)

“This paper may be of interest – study done by Google on over 100,000 drives they have/had in service. When they fail, why they fail, what correlates with failure.” [https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk\_failures.pdf](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf) – *from email to UC-<span class="caps">CSC</span> list by <span class="caps">UCI</span> colleague Harry Mangalam*

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"A nine year study of file system and storage benchmarking (2008)": [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1367829.1367831](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1367829.1367831)

Associated data and presentations:  
[http://fsbench.filesystems.org/](http://fsbench.filesystems.org/)