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Machine Learning Approach to HDD Failure Prediction

Machine Learning Approach to HDD Failure Prediction

by | Oct 19, 2023 | HDD

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...
SATA HDD Rankings of Long Latency Reads

SATA HDD Rankings of Long Latency Reads

by | Aug 31, 2023 | Long Latency Reads

Have you ever opened a local file on your computer system that seemed to take a long time to open? If a file takes too long to open, you might quit the opening application and try to open the file again. And if this happens on a regular basis, you might even consider...
Managing UNC Errors in RAID for NAS Devices

Managing UNC Errors in RAID for NAS Devices

by | Aug 1, 2023 | RAID

A NAS (Network Attached Storage) device is a specialized computer designed for data storage and providing access to that data over the internet or a network. In the event of an uncorrectable read error (UNC), the NAS device initiates an I/O error event, marks the...
Detecting Bad Sectors in a RAID

Detecting Bad Sectors in a RAID

by | Jul 31, 2023 | RAID

Hard drives commonly encounter the issue of bad sectors, which can lead to the loss of data and a decline in performance. There are several methods to detect bad sectors in a RAID. Through Read Commands One method to find bad sectors is to simply read from the drive...
Dealing with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2

Dealing with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2

by | Jun 13, 2023 | HDD

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...