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

Senior Staff Product Manager

Seagate Techology

Dave Craton is part of the Technical Marketing organization at Seagate Technology, responsible for product and technology planning, customer roadmap alignment, and hard drive reliability. Dave has 15 years of experience in the hard drive industry. He has lived and worked in the US and China, focused on customer qualifications, factory quality, and most recently product planning and hard drive strategy with customers and technology partners in industry and government. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Drive Regeneration in Action: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters

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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.
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