failure trends in a large disk drive population.pptVIP

SMART Data Analysis Some signals more relevant to disk failures Parameters Scan errors Reallocation counts Offline Reallocations Probational counts Miscellaneous signals Scan errors Errors that are reported when drives scan the disk surface in the background Indicative of surface defects Consistent impact on AFR Drives with scan errors are 39 times more likely to fail after first scan error Reallocation Counts Represents the number of times a faulty sector is remapped to new physical sector Consistent impact on AFR 14 times more likely to fail Offline reallocations Subset of reallocation counts Reallocated sectors found during background scrubbing Survival probability worse than total reallocations 21 times more likely to fail Probational counts Sectors are on ‘probation’ until they fail permanently or work without problems 16 times more likely to fail Threshold is 1 Miscellaneous signals Seek errors CRC errors Power cycles Calibration retries Spin retries Power-on hours Vibration Conclusion Larger population size used compared to previous studies Lack of consistent pattern of failures for high temperatures or utilization levels SMART parameters are well correlated with failure probabilities Prediction models based only on SMART parameters is limited in accuracy Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population Authors: Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andr′e Barroso Presented by Vinuthna Arjun Motivation  90% of all new information is stored on magnetic disks. Most of such data stored on HDD Study failure patterns and key factors that affect the life Analyze the correlation between failures and parameters that are believed to impact life of HDD Why ? --better design and maintenance of storage systems Previous studies Mostly accelerated aging experiments – poor predictor Moderate size Stats present on returned units from warranty databases No insight on what actually happened to drive during operation Our study  Large study – examining h