Qnap Assigned Patent

Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,705,744) developed by Hsu, Chin-Hsing, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “method, data storage system, and computer-readable recording medium for disk array data distribution.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, a data storage system, and a computer-readable recording medium for disk array data distribution are proposed. The method includes the following steps. The space of a disk array composed of multiple flash storage devices is divided into multiple RAID extents with a same data distribution pattern, where each of the RAID extents includes a first region having multiple first stripes and first strips and also a second region having multiple second stripes and second strips. The first strips in each of the first stripes are evenly distributed among the flash storage devices in a first rotation pattern, and the second strips in each of the second stripes are unevenly distributed among the flash storage devices in a second rotation pattern.”

The patent application was filed on August 21, 2018 (16/106,000).