Oct 2, 2024 | HDD & SSD Failures
SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) attributes are a critical tool for predicting potential failures in hard drives. One key attribute is SMART 12, which tracks the number of power cycle counts or how many times the drive has been powered off...
Oct 24, 2023 | AI & ML in Drive Health
As the climate crisis escalates, punishing heat waves, hurricanes, floods, and other extreme weather events will increasingly become the norm. This underscores the growing significance of generating precise weather forecasts. Presently, meteorologists rely on...
Jun 13, 2023 | Bad Sectors
Spare sectors are extra sectors that are not part of the drive’s advertised capacity. They are reserved for use when a sector becomes unreadable or unwritable due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear. The drive has a mechanism to automatically detect such...
