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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2001
Kevin Collins, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael P. Fleischmann, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Kevin Collins, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael P. Fleischmann, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for monitoring performance of a storage device. Preferably, the apparatus is embodied in computer readable program code. The apparatus and method may intercept communications between a computer system and the storage device, wherein the communications are compared to a threshold value and/or a predicted failure of the storage device. The apparatus and method may also respond to a decline in the performance of the storage device based on the analyzed communications, and preferably prior to the predicted failure thereof.