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Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Nagamasa Mizushima, Tokyo, JP;

Tomohiro Yoshihara, Tokyo, JP;

Kentaro Shimada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a storage system in which a compression rate of randomly written data can be increased and access performance can be improved. A storage controllerA includes a cache areaA configured to store data to be read out of or written into a drive. The controllerA groups a plurality of pieces of data stored in the cache areaA and input into the drivebased on a similarity degree among the pieces of data, selects a group, compresses data of the selected group in group units, and stores the compressed data in the drive


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