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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Comput. Sci.
Sec. Computer Security
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2024.1400943

A Survivability Analysis of Enterprise Hard Drives Incorporating the Impact of Workload

Provisionally accepted
Aman Mallik Aman Mallik 1*B R. Reddy B R. Reddy 2Gadadhar Sahoo Gadadhar Sahoo 3
  • 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad, India
  • 2 DELL R&D, Bengaluru, India
  • 3 Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

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    One major reason for downtime in enterprise storage systems is hard disk drive (HDD) failure. Current research indicates that the data access rate has a significant impact on the survival probability of HDDs. In this paper, a model is proposed to estimate the probability of HDD failure based on the total data (TD) read or written as well as the average access rate (AAR) for a given drive model. The results of case studies based on an HDD failure dataset validate the efficacy of the proposed approach of using a storage controller to improve throttle commands to disks to minimize the failure risk.

    Keywords: Cox proportional hazards model, storage system risk reduction, Hdd failure prediction, survivability probability, Enterprise storage systems

    Received: 14 Mar 2024; Accepted: 09 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Mallik, Reddy and Sahoo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Aman Mallik, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad, India

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