Infinidat Assigned Patent
Storage system and allocating disk drives to redundancy array of independent disks
By Francis Pelletier | May 12, 2016 at 2:48 pmInfinidat Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,304,713) developed by Goldberg, Alexander, Rehovot, Israel, Plisko, Cyril, Petah Tikvah, Israel, Yaari, Yariv, Kibuz Gvulot, Israel, and Rosenthal, Erez, Atlit, Israel, for a “storage system and a method for allocating disk drives to redundancy array of independent disks.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system that may include a management module, and multiple disk drives, wherein the management module is arranged to allocate disk drives of the multiple disk drives to disk drive groups, each disk drive group corresponds to at least one redundancy array of independent disks, (RAID) group of data in response to at least one out of: locations of the disk drives within disk drive enclosures, and expected or actual temperatures of the disk drives.“
The patent application was filed on February 24, 2013 (13/775,199).
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