Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Krishnamoorthy Anantharaman

Dale R Elliott

Malak Alshawabkeh

Stephen Richard Ives

Andrew Chanler

Prakash Venkatanarayanan

Seema G Pai

Edward S Robins

Kevin Granlund

Michael Garvey

Sunil Gumaste

Ravish Sachdeva

Pankaj Soni

Christopher Monti

Abhilash Sanap

ShashiKiran Talanki Ramanathagupta

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to detecting and correcting a storage array's drive sectors to prevent data loss. In embodiments, a storage array's telemetry information is monitored. Further, one or more state or operational metrics of the storage array's storage drives are measured. Additionally, each storage drive is scrubbed based on each drive's relative scrubbing priority defined by the telemetry information and each storage drive's state or operation metrics.

Storage media scrubber

Individual storage devices of a RAID group are monitored for faults. A health indicator for each storage device is calculated based on fault growth rate. Non-failed storage device are swapped out based on the health indicator. Techniques for monitoring the storage devices include background media scans and growth list polling.

RAID failure prevention

Growing community of inventors

Karnataka, India

Krishnamoorthy Anantharaman