Concatenating a first raid with a second raid
US8719495B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 30, 2010 |
| Grant date | May 6, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 4, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2211/1023
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for concatenating a first RAID and a second RAID. The apparatus includes a concatenation module and a direction module. The concatenation module concatenates a first Redundant Array of Independent Disks (“RAID”) with a second RAID into a top-level RAID. The first RAID and the second RAID may have disparate operational characteristics. The direction module directs storage operations to one of the first RAID and the second RAID based on a direction policy.
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