Best Practices for Keeping Your HDD Healthy

Feb 11, 2025 | Drive Health Monitoring

Your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is a crucial component of your computer, responsible for storing all your valuable data. Ensuring its longevity and optimal performance is essential for preventing data loss and maintaining smooth operations. Table of Contents Avoid...

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...

What Does “Device Not Ready” Error Say About Your Drive Health?

Sep 19, 2024 | HDD & SSD Failures

The “Drive Not Ready (DNR)” error reported by computer and NAS systems is an interesting one. For hard disk drives (HDD), a DNR error means that the drive is unusable or has failed. A DNR indicates that the SATA or NVMe interface is working but that the drive is not...

Google’s ML Model for HDD Health Management in Data Centers

Apr 2, 2024 | AI & ML in Drive Health

Ensuring the health and reliability of HDDs is paramount for large-scale operations. We at ULINK have used ML models and developed a successful disk failure prediction tool called ULINK DA Drive Analyzer. We recently explored the recent model developed by Meta and now...

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...