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rachelwenzel

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rachelwenzel··on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
Wow- crazy to see people at Backblaze actually read that article!!

Thank you guys for putting out so much data and writing so much about your findings- it was HUGE in helping me come to conclusions about what's realistic to assume from SMART stats. Y'all are doing some really really cool stuff.

rachelwenzel··on Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning
Hey there! Article author here-

This was written as an after-the-fact look back after a year long project and the target testing set did change a little along the way. The big change was splitting by manufacturer (and eventually by model family), which changed the number of applicable samples to compare performance on.

I cut some stuff from the article for length, so I totally get how that could have been unclear.