Recent Innovations for HDD Drive Reliability and Longevity

Oct 16, 2024 | Drive Technology & Innovations

Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are the backbone of modern data storage but face inherent challenges due to their design. HDDs suffer from mechanical wear and vulnerability to physical shocks. Recent innovations in these technologies have addressed these issues, enhancing...

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

Mar 29, 2024 | HDD & SSD Failures

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)

Mar 19, 2024 | HDD & SSD Failures

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

Oct 17, 2023 | AI & ML in Drive Health

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...

Predicting Problems in HDDs and SSDs

May 19, 2023 | HDD & SSD Failures

Hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) are essential components of modern computers for storing and retrieving data for various applications. However, these devices are not immune to failures, which can lead to data loss, performance degradation, or...