What If Your Hard Drive Could Predict Its Own Failures?

This article explores an AI-driven approach to disk scrubbing that ranks drive health and optimizes maintenance schedules for reliability and energy efficiency. By integrating Mondrian conformal predictors, system administrators can proactively identify latent disk failures and schedule scrubbing during low workloads. The result: reduced power consumption, improved system uptime, and a smarter, data-informed strategy for maintaining large-scale storage systems.