Disk reliability

Research on disk reliability and disk failure rates is relevant to computer forensics for several reasons:

• Disk failures frequently make it difficult to recover data from a subject computer.
• Because forensic practitioners use very large datasets, issues of disk drive reliability can have direct bearing on forensic readyness.

Bibliography

• An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Shankar Pasupathy, Jiri Schindler, SIGMETRICS '07. (ACM DL)

• Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, by Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andre Barroso, Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’07), February 2007