Interpretable predictive maintenance for hard drives

Predictive Maintenance Framework for Hard Disk Media Production

Manufacturing yield control for hard disk media is getting tougher. This is proportional to the tremendous increases of its bit/inch storage capacity. With the significantly difficult lithography process will be involved and drastically increase in number of product total output volume that will be required in near future, conventional maintenance type is no longer feasible. This paper proposes...

From hard drives to flash drives to DNA drives.

Recently there has been another round of controversial news regarding genetically modified organisms (GMO). Perhaps the best known debate on these centers on corn. A recent French study showed severe kidney and liver abnormalities in rats that were fed this corn for up to 2 years. Immediately afterward, Russia banned the use of this seed and the corn it produces. Because other studies have not ...

Development of Interpretable Predictive Models for BPH and Prostate Cancer

BACKGROUND Traditional methods for deciding whether to recommend a patient for a prostate biopsy are based on cut-off levels of stand-alone markers such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or any of its derivatives. However, in the last decade we have seen the increasing use of predictive models that combine, in a non-linear manner, several predictives that are better able to predict prostate ca...

Predictive Maintenance

After Hard Drives — What Comes Next ?

There are numerous emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, which have been proposed as being capable of replacing hard disk drives (HDDs). In this paper, the prospects for these alternative technologies to displace HDDs in 2020 are analyzed. In order to compare technologies, projections were made of storage density and performance in year 2020 for both hard disks and the alternative technolog...