Preventing ‘SMART Failure’ on Your Hard Disk

Apr 11, 2024 | SMART

In the world of digital data, the phrase “SMART failure predicted on hard disk” is an ominous warning that your hard drive might be on its last legs and the safety of your data and the stability of your entire system is under threat. Powered by cloud-based...

Predictive Maintenance using Thresholds

Dec 12, 2023 | Predictive Maintenance, SMART

Data plays a critical role in predictive maintenance for drives. It can be the key to averting drive failures. Monitoring data on drive health such as SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) attributes and temperature is an integral part of...

How Reliable are SMART Trips?

Sep 19, 2023 | SMART

Imagine that you check SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) on your drive and you receive a SMART trip. Should you be replacing your drive immediately? Conversely, if it declares your drive does not have a SMART trip, does it mean that your drive...

Locating Host Detected Issues on DA Portal: Features of DA Drive Analyzer

Apr 11, 2023 | Host Detected Issues

In the previous article, we have seen how host detected issues are different from drive detected issues. Host detected issues are issues such as long latency write count, and read retry count, that the host notices about how the drive is responding or performing,...