Is Your Hard Drive DYING?

SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology and is a monitoring system included in hard drives that reports on various attributes of ...

What is the easiest way read SMART data and decipher it? I'm thinking it might be time to migrate some drives.

Each day, Backblaze takes a snapshot of each operational hard drive that includes basic hard drive information (e.g., capacity, failure) and S.M.A.R.T. ...

Determine a SMART attribute or group of attributes which predict failure is imminent in a given drive model. Keep the false positive rate to a ...

Every disk drive includes Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART), which reports internal information about the drive.

This post briefly explains how I took the raw SMART data (drive health data) from Backblaze and turned it into insights on my previous post.

Read about SMART stats to see how you can use them to monitor your SSD storage devices.

All SMART data was collected using Smartmontools. You can find the SMART stats definitions in Section 6.1 here. Smart 1: Raw_Read_Error_Rate (Raw Value).

Backblaze has collected, curated, and published the annualized failure rates (AFR) and related statistics from the hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state ...

RAIN is a feature which the SSD uses to protect user data and to extend the lifetime of the drive. Frequent RAIN events can cause a noticeable decrease in.