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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Parminder Singh Sethi, Ludhiana, IN;

Chandroma Ghose, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, comprising: detecting that a storage device is experiencing a failure, the storage device being part of a computing device; identifying a cooling fan that is associated with the storage device, the cooling fan being part of the computing device, the cooling fan being identified based on one or more data structures that map the cooling fan to the storage device; and increasing a speed of the cooling fan from a first speed level to a second speed level, the speed of the cooling fan being increased in response to detecting that the storage device is experiencing the failure, wherein the speed of the cooling fan is increased proactively.


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