Every storage device tells a story if you know how to read it. In this clip, Ian Lovell, Vice President of Strategy and Technical Solutions at Reconext, explains how analyzing real usage data helps identify wear, plan maintenance, and keep drives in service longer.
When you look at how a storage device performs in its actual environment, you start to see patterns. You can tell when it’s beginning to wear and plan maintenance before a failure happens. We’ve built models that use real usage data, not assumptions. They look at how the drive has lived, not just how long it has run. In many cases, drives predicted to fail early actually perform better because the weak ones were already filtered out in the first stage. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
