DA Drive Analyzer
Prevent Data Loss with AI-Powered Drive Failure Prediction
DA Drive Analyzer goes beyond traditional S.M.A.R.T attributes with cloud-based AI that precisely analyzes drive health to predict failures. With alert notifications of potential drive failures, you can prepare in advance to replace drives before they fail and lose data.
All QNAP NAS include one disk of lifetime free AI-powered drive health diagnostics
AI-powered diagnostics that predict drive failure
Powered by a cloud AI engine provided by ULINK, the world leader in IT storage interface test tools, the ULINK DA Drive Analyzer analyzes millions of real users’ historical data of drives to intelligently predict if one of your drives is near failure. This allows you to plan for replacements and service continuity before drive failure occurs. With DA Drive Analyzer's user-friendly interface, you can check both the life prediction score and drive health status (including temperature and test IOPS). You can also view advanced information about your drives on the ULINK DA Portal. With DA Drive Analyzer, surprise drive failures are a thing of the past.
Why you need DA Drive Analyzer
When a drive fails, you not only potentially lose all the files/data stored on it, but it can also lead to a severe domino effect that causes downtime and cripples interconnected services and workflows. While most enterprises reply on S.M.A.R.T. attributes as drive detection tools, a study has shown that over 30% of drives failures did not trigger any S.M.A.R.T. error alerts. By receiving detailed information on each drive from AI-powered prediction provided by DA Drive Analyzer, you can plan drive replacement in advance to prepare for drive failure before it occurs.
Designed for enterprises and SMBs
DA Drive Analyzer 2.0New Features
Comprehensive drive health diagnostics. Strengthened data protection.
What to do when drives are "Warning" or "Critical"
Monitor drive health from the cloud or your computers
Automatic RAID disk replacement before potential failure
You can utilize various disk drive assessment tools. Once a trigger event occurs (For example, DA Drive Analyzer shows warning), QNAP NAS automatically moves data from the affected disk in a RAID group to a spare disk, before the data on the affected disk becomes inaccessible. This feature removes the need to wait for the system to replace drives only after a failure occurs, and improves system reliability by preventing the need for lengthy (from hours to even weeks) RAID rebuilding which risks data loss and impacts system performance.
Supported models
NAS system requirements
- Basic functions are supported in all QNAP NAS with QTS 5.0 / QuTS hero h5.0 (or later).
- Full functions are supported in all QNAP NAS with QTS 5.1.3 / QuTS hero h5.1.3 (or later), such as Proxy Server connection.
- All QNAP expansion units (except the TR series) are supported.
- DA Drive Analyzer requires Internet access (direct access or through Proxy Server).
Supported drives
- SATA HDD and SATA SSD
- SAS HDD and SAS SSD
- NVMe SSD
The DA Drive Analyzer cloud-based AI currently supports 99% of the drives available on the market, although it may not have an up-to-date list due to new firmware or models. We recommend that users install DA Drive Analyzer from the App Center and select “Drive Support Check” from the menu in the top-right corner. The AI will immediately inform you if the disks in your NAS are supported.
Learn more about drive models supported by the cloud AI:
Some SATA drives may be listed as "Unsupported" after analysis by the cloud AI inferencing system due to firmware or manufacturer settings.