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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2017
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Date, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Koseki, Tokyo, JP;
Akifumi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Tsuruya, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A storage apparatus includes: a controller; and a plurality of storage drives, wherein the controller issues a read command for specifying a value associated with an error correction mode to a first storage drive of the plurality of storage drives, the first storage drive selects the error correction mode associated with the value specified by the read command from a plurality of error correction modes, the plurality of error correction modes include a first error correction mode and a second error correction mode with a higher correcting capability and a longer maximum delay time than those of the first error correction mode, and the first storage drive executes a read of data from a storage medium in the selected error correction mode.