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.