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Analyzing drive health

The Analytics panel contains report cards that shows analytics about the health and predictive failure of hard disk drives and solid-state drives in managed ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem servers.

To display the firmware reports, click Analytics (Analytics icon) > Predefined Analytics, and then click Drive Predictive Analytics to display the related analytics cards.

Analytics are supported for the following drives model types.
Hard drives
  • ST2000NX0253
  • ST8000NM0055
  • ST10000NM0086
  • ST12000NM0008
Solid state drives
  • Intel SSDSC2BB800G4
Important
Drives with older firmware at not eligible for analysis. Update the drives to the latest firmware level to enable predictive analysis.

Drives At Risk​

This report card contains a pie graph that shows the number of drives in each health state (normal or risky).

Drives At Risk History​

This report card contains a bar graph that shows the number of failed drives, during the last week or last year. Hover the cursor over each bar in the graph to display a filtered list of failed drives, by device, on that day.

Drives with Predictive Failure​

The report card contains a table that lists the devices with failed drives. You can click on a device to list the details of each at-risk drive in that device.