Biography
Dr. Jon Elerath is a reliability consultant, specializing in
reliability of electro-mechanical systems. Previously he was a senior
staff reliability engineer at SolFocus, a leading supplier of High
Concentrator Photovoltaic (HCPV) systems. He has focused on hard-disk
drive reliability for more than half his 35-plus-year career, which
included positions at NetApp, General Electric, Tegal, Tandem Computers,
Compaq, and the IBM disk drive group where he applied reliability
techniques to HCPV trackers, hard disk drives, RAID data storage systems,
nuclear safety systems of fast breeder reactors, electronics and robotics
of plasma-etching equipment, and fault-tolerant computers. A major area of
interest is reliability of RAID storage systems. He has authored over 30
technical publications including “Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly” (ACM, 2009) and “A Highly Accurate Method for Assessing
Reliability of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks” (IEEE, 2008). He is
active in writing IEEE reliability standards and was Chairman of the
Reliability Committee for the International Disk drive Equipment and
Materials Association (IDEMA) for over 10 years.
Jon received his BSME and MS Reliability degrees from the University of Arizona, and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
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