Hitachi, Ltd.

Shintarou Inoue

Tatsuya Nakamura

Hidenori Suzuki

Hiroki Fujii

Eiju Katsuragi

Yasuyuki Nagasoe

Sho Sawada

A storage controller of a storage system performs, when failures occur in at least two drives, priority rebuilding and normal rebuilding in parallel, the priority rebuilding being performed so as to perform rebuilding using a reading drive for reading data for restoration of priority rebuild data to be preferentially rebuilt and a writing drive specified for writing the priority rebuild data restored, the normal rebuilding being performed so as to rebuilt normal rebuild data by using a specified reading drive and a specified writing drive.

Storage system and rebuilding method for storage system

A storage system includes first storage devices to provide storage areas of a first tier and for which a life usage rate is determined based on an erase count and a guaranteed maximum erase count, second storage devices to provide storage areas of a second tier and for which a guaranteed maximum erase count is not specified, and a controller to perform data reallocation between the first tier and the second tier. The controller determines a weight for a read access and a weight for a write access from a host based on life usage rates of the first storage devices, and determines whether to relocate data stored in the second tier to the first tier based on the weight for a read access, the weight for a write access, a read count for the data in a period, and a write count for the data in the period.

Storage system

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Shintarou Inoue