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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason Liang, Campbell, CA (US);
Ho-Yiu Lam, Mountain View, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes gathering usage data of a tape drive during usage thereof and creating and/or updating a usage model based on the usage data. The method includes determining that the usage model has reached a predefined confidence level and performing an action in response to determining that the usage model has reached the predefined confidence level. A computer program product for increasing the life of tape drives includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer program product includes program instructions executable by a computer. The program instructions cause the computer to perform the foregoing method.