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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
James N. Malina, Irvine, CA (US);
Benixon Arul Dhas, Irvine, CA (US);
Mohamad Hasmizal Azmi, Bukit Beruntung, MY;
Austin Liou, Irvine, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An object based storage cluster includes at least one Data Storage Device (DSD) with a plurality of media portions for storing data. Media mapping information is received from the at least one DSD with the media mapping information indicating addresses assigned to each media portion of the plurality of media portions. Each media portion of the plurality of media portions is identified as a separate Object Storage Device (OSD) in the object based storage cluster using the media mapping information.