Fast data recovery from HDD failure
US7904749B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 24, 2008 |
| Grant date | Mar 8, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 2, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1092
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe.
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