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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jun Xu, Singapore, SG;

Wei Xi, Mission Viejo, CA (US);

Grant Mackey, Irvine, CA (US);

Sanghoon Chu, San Jose, CA (US);

Jie Yu, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus includes: an adaptive declustered RAID array configured of data storage devices (DSDs), the DSDs comprise data chunks allocated as data, a local parity, or a global parity; and a controller configured to generate a reliability indicator reflective of a reliability status of at least a portion of the adaptive declustered RAID array for reallocating the data chunks by dynamically increasing or decreasing the data chunks allocated as the local parity, the global parity, or a combination thereof.


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