A Meta Perspective on HDD Health in Data Centers (Part 2)

A Meta Perspective on HDD Health in Data Centers (Part 2)

Social media giant Meta’s recent paper highlights four primary factors influencing HDD reliability: age, workload, temperature, and interference from vibrations. We covered the impact of age in the previous part. Here, we continue our analysis of Meta’s study and the...
A Meta Perspective on HDD Health in Data Centers (Part 1)

A Meta Perspective on HDD Health in Data Centers (Part 1)

In the dynamic landscape of data centers, the reliable performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) is crucial. HDDs serve as the backbone of storage systems, storing immense amounts of data across various applications and services. However, the unique composition of HDDs,...
Revolutionizing HDD Care with Predictive Machine Learning

Revolutionizing HDD Care with Predictive Machine Learning

In today’s world, where data and data drives are critical resources, managing HDDs in operations and proactively detecting potential failures is of paramount importance. Any oversight in timely failure detection could lead to severe disruptions across products and...
How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2

How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2

In this two-part article on “How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive,” we have already looked at what bad sectors are and what causes them. We will now look at how your hard drive deals with them and what you can do to minimize the effect of bad sectors. How...