Minimizing Hard Disk Drive Failure and Data Loss

While every hard disk drive can eventually be expected to fail, some preparation and practical information can be used to minimize this failure, and to avoid data loss when failure is likely. Please note that SSDs, Flash storage (cheap laptops, smartphones, tablet, etc), and cloud storage is different.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Environmental Control
3. Electricity Control
4. Stress Control
5. Detecting an Impending Drive Failure
6. Data Redundancy
7. Data Reduction
8. Drive Life-Cycle Management
9. Additional Measures
10. Case Study
11. Popdisk
12. Recovering Data After a Hard Disk Drive Failure
13. Reference