Predicting Hard Disk Drive Faults, Failures and Associated Misbehavior's

Christopher Harrison, Henish Balu, Inês Dutra

Abstract: Magnetic hard disk drives continue to be heavily used to store global information. However, due to the physical characteristics these components fatigue and fail, sometimes in unexpected ways. A failing hard disk can cause problems to a group of hard disks and result in suboptimal performance which impacts cloud providers. To address failures, redundancies are put in place, but these redundancies have a high cost. Utilizing Machine learning we identify predictive failure features within a hard disk vendor’s Hard Disk Drive Model line which can be used as an early failure prediction method which may be used to reduce redundancies in cloud storage infrastructures.