The Classification Model for Hard Disk Drive Functional Tests under Sparse Data Conditions

This paper proposed classification models that would be used as a proxy for hard disk drive (HDD) functional test equitant which required approximately more than two weeks to perform the HDD status classification in either “Pass" or “Fail". These models were constructed by using committee network which consisted of a number of single neural networks. This paper also included the method to solve the problem of sparseness data in failed part, which was called “enforce learning method". Our results reveal that the constructed classification models with the proposed method could perform well in the sparse data conditions and thus the models, which used a few seconds for HDD classification, could be used to substitute the HDD functional tests.

Authors:

• S. Pattanapairoj
• D. Chetchotsak

Keywords:

• Sparse data
• Classifications
• Committee network

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