Peng Liu is a Principle Research Statistician Developer in the JMP division at SAS Institute. He is responsible for the Reliability and Time series platforms in JMP. He researches and publishes on methodologies and applications of reliability analysis. He implements new features and maintains existing functionalities in those platforms. He provides support to colleagues on those subjects. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University. His favorite subjects include consumer product reliability, economics and financial time series, compiler crafting, database, generative arts, and robotics.
Which computer hard drives are most reliable? And how often should you replace a hard drive? Those are some of the questions I hope to answer in exploring and analyzing data about hard drive tests. A company called Backblaze, which offers online data backup services, generously makes this data available