Whyte's key findings included:
finding #1 the disks nobody else has are the ones most likely to fail
(over 3 times the rate of published materials)
finding #2 age matters - older media fails more often
... BUT if you add filesystem and format to the model, the age effect disappears (p = .26). they're entwined, and age may be telling us only part of the story
#iPRES2026