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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2023
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Clint A. Hardy, Tucson, AZ (US);

Matthew G. Borlick, Tucson, AZ (US);

Beth Ann Peterson, Tucson, AZ (US);

Lokesh Mohan Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);

Karl Allen Nielsen, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining to migrate data between compressed storage devices and non-compressed storage devices in a storage system. The storage system provides compressed storage devices having native data compression and a non-compressed storage devices not configured to have native compression. A determination is made of storage usage factors for the compressed storage devices and the non-compressed storage devices. A determination is made whether to move data between the compressed storage devices and the non-compressed storage devices based on the storage usage factors. Data is moved between the compressed storage devices and the non-compressed storage devices in response to determining to move the data between the compressed storage devices and the non-compressed storage devices.


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