Patent Document ID: 9612896
Application ID: 14834261
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: selecting hard disk status information from a database of hard disk status records for a plurality of hard disks, the hard disk status information comprising a non-zero medium error count and an indicator of whether the disk has failed; for each hard disk in the plurality of hard disks generating a hard disk failure record comprising: an initial non-zero medium error count (NMEC), a date of the initial NMEC, a date that the hard disk failed, in response to determining that the hard disk has failed, a statistical classification value that is determined from the initial NMEC; for each statistical classification value, generating a hard disk failure probability record for the classification comprising: a percentage of hard disks that failed, and an average number of days to failure of the hard disks that failed, and; predicting subsequent hard disk failure of one or more hard disks based on the hard disk failure records.