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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Curtis Stevens

Strategist

Seagate Technology

Curtis Stevens (Strategist, Seagate Technology) has been working in the storage industry for over 35 years with experience in host side drivers, HBA design, Hard disk drives, SSD’s, SAS/SATA/USB/1394/etc. Curtis is the technical editor for standards and specifications in INCITS T10, INCITS T13, SATA-IO, USB-IF, NVMe, and others. Curtis has helped invent and standardize technologies in the areas of Bootable CD-ROM, PATA-SATA bridges, USB Printers, USB Mass Storage, translating SAS to SATA, 4K/512e sector sizes, NVMe Zoned Name Spaces, and most recently, Drive Regeneration/depopulation & Translating SAS to NVMe.

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Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

Drive Regeneration in Action: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters

Datacenter reliability and storage availability are critical to ensuring uninterrupted access to data in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. Today, HDD defects (such as media defects) are managed as part of fault tolerance. Storage Element Depopulation, also known as Drive Regeneration, is an innovative HDD technology that expands fault tolerance by allowing drives with larger defects (such as a degraded recording head) to remain operational rather than being decommissioned. This talk will explore the types of Drive Regeneration, detailing its mechanisms for isolating defective regions while preserving most of the drive’s capacity. Real-world examples and best practices will be shared to illustrate how this technology is being deployed today to optimize storage availability and minimize the need to deploy service personnel for replacements.

Curtis Stevens
Strategist
Seagate Technology
Dave Craton
Senior Staff Product Manager
Seagate Techology
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