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I'm certain there are more recent statistics but Google's "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population"[1] (2007) is a good start:

"In addition to presenting failure statistics, we analyze the correlation between failures and several parameters generally believed to impact longevity."

There is also a more recent open source dataset from Backblaze[2] that includes:

"Every day, the software that runs the Backblaze data center takes a snapshot of the state of every drive in the data center, including the drive’s serial number, model number, and all of its SMART data"

which forms the basis of an article correlating SMART data with drive failures at Backblaze[3].

[1]: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

[3]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/




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