Archive: https://archive.today/bLzBm From the post: >>This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we’ve had 13 years of this experiment. The traditional 13-year anniversary gift is lace—intricate, impressive, and vulnerable to a snag if you don’t plan ahead to protect the pattern. Systems, like lace, don’t survive by pretending there are no points of vulnerability. When it comes to our infrastructure, we want to build with the snags in mind to create something durable, and the Drive Stats series is always seeking to publish and provide data so that you, too, can go the distance with your drives.