1. A system comprising: means for conducting a predictive fault analysis for at least one drive of a redundant array of independent drives (RAID), wherein the means for conducting a predictive fault analysis for at least one drive of a redundant array of independent drives (RAID) comprises: means for computing a drive-reliability metric for the at least one drive of the RAID, wherein the means for computing a drive-reliability metric for the at least one drive of the RAID comprises: means for disregarding at least a portion of the drive-reliability metric according to an IO channel disturbance independent of the function of the at least one drive of the RAID; and means for copying data from the at least one drive of the RAID to a replacement drive when the number of times the drive reliability metric passes the first threshold value passes a second threshold value.