Flash Reliability in Production

To read this article included in the Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’16). February 22-25, 2016, Santa Clara, CA, click on:
Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected
By Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto; Raghav Lagisetty and Arif Merchant, Google Inc.
Between 20-63% of drives experience at least one uncorrectable error during their first four years in the field, making uncorrectable errors the most common non-transparent error in these drives. Between 2-6 out of 1,000 drive days are affected by them.