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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Accelstor, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Shih-Chiang Tsao, Taipei, TW;
Ting-Fang Chien, Taipei, TW;
ACCELSTOR LTD., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A distributed storage device includes a control unit and a plurality of storage units. The control unit has a network interface, to receive a work instruction sent by at least one user end via a network. Each storage unit supports a non-volatile memory host controller interface (NVMHCI) specification and includes at least one non-volatile memory and a storage controller. The storage controller is capable of performing an operation on the at least one non-volatile memory according to the work instruction, to share operation resources of the control unit. The operation may be thin provisioning that establishes a physical volume and a logical volume for the storage unit.