This artificial intelligence predicts when your hard drive will fail

QNAP offers an AI-based tool to predict hard drive failures. DA Drive Analyzer analyzes data from millions of hard drives.

In a computer-driven world that has been around for many years, data storage is essential. Whether it’s on a server on the other side of the world or on the computer you use every day, storage is very important. And once it shows signs of weakness, there is nothing to worry about your important data and files. Today there is artificial intelligence that can make your life safer.

QNAP Offers AI-Based Tool to Predict Hard Drive Failures

You’ve probably already experienced the painful experience of a hard drive at the end of its life. Coincidentally, this one starts to give up the ghost, if not completely give up the ghost at the most inopportune moment when you have important work to do or you have spent long hours on a video or audio file. And then you see that everything has disappeared with the crash, pure and simple. This is, of course, just in case you don’t make frequent backups.

However, it’s a bit like we’re all playing the hard drive failure lottery. It is impossible to know when this will happen. Sometimes you are entitled to receive certain warnings, your machine displays various error messages, but sometimes they appear out of nowhere. Today, NAS manufacturer QNAP believes it has found a solution thanks to an algorithm based on artificial intelligence.

DA Drive Analyzer analyzes data from millions of hard drives

The company has developed a tool called DA Drive Analyzer. Often this works: it uses artificial intelligence to predict when the NAS drive is likely to crash you. Artificial intelligence is looking for various features in the data received on millions of hard drives. In other words, it will find out the cause of hard drive failure and look for warning signs on your hard drives.

And if all of this sounds familiar to you, it may be because Google is also very interested in this kind of technology. Mountain View announced a partnership with Seagate a few months ago. The American giant is going to create a machine learning model that will eventually predict hard drive failures.