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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2024
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuya Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
HITACHI VANTARA, LTD., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 11/1096 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system includes a storage apparatus having a plurality of physical drives and a controller. In a case where a physical failure occurs in a physical drive, the controller additionally installs a drive provided from a cloud, and maintains a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) configuration before the occurrence of the physical failure in the physical drive using the physical drives excluding the physical drive where the physical failure has occurred and the additionally installed drive provided from the cloud.