Google and Seagate think they can tell when your HDD will fail – TechRadar

Google Cloud and Seagate
has devised a machine learning (ML
) system to predict when disks inside Googles data centers
might fail.
Despite their volatility and high fail rates, hard disk drives (HDD
) are the preferred means of housing data inside a data center. 
While newer and more reliable technologies such as flash memory
are being touted as viable alternatives, IDC predicts that data centers will increase their storage capacity by 17.8% over the next few years, with HDDs leading the way.
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