SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Mahmoud Jibbe
Technical Director
NetApp
Dr. M. K. Jibbe is responsible for the quality of E-series products at the design, firmware development, and QA levels at NetApp ESG in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Jibbe is an Adjunct Professor at the Wichita State University teaching engineering classes at the BS and MS levels in the areas of Protocols, SAN, NAS, chip development, and cloud applications.
Related Sessions
Drive Health Monitor (DHM) for Drives On-Prem (or core data center) and Cloud
This paper looks back at the analysis that has been done for the drive wear-out issue on for the different E-series array systems running at different customers’ sites and uses that data to give more specific guidance on thresholds for a preemptive drive removal. Motivation of DHM: Customers with old ventage or Refurbished drive replacement may experience a data loss event and continues to see a high drive failure rate >5% AFR (Annual Failure Rate). Storage vendors expect to see high fallout rates across the hard drive population as they age. The high utilization and the age of the drives are likely to continue and possibly increase the drive failure rate.
Failures are as such:
- Outages: Loss of access
- Performance impact
- Possible data loss
