Data mining university project

What is S.M.A.R.T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

What Backblaze has done until now and dataset information

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html

Analysis example of S.M.A.R.T. data (useful thresholds in comments)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/

More recent analysis

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/

General statistics

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

Dataset

1. https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_2015.zip
2. https://f001.backblaze.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_Q1_2016.zip
3. https://f001.backblaze.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_Q2_2016.zip
4. https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_Q3_2016.zip
5. https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_Q4_2016.zip
6. https://f001.backblaze.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/data_Q1_2017.zip

Some nice graphs from some poke around with Spark

Capacity and drive count in the 2015,2016 and Q1 2017

Stats about the temperature