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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2004
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods of determining the maximum storage capacity in a storage system that implements RAID-5 redundancy are described. In one implementation the method comprises determining a chunk size of addressable physical storage segments available for allocation in a redundant storage set comprising a plurality of physical disk drives; determining a number of redundant storage units per disk using the chunk size; determining a disk contribution value for each disk in the storage set; and allocating physical storage segments on the plurality of physical drives in accordance with the disk contribution value.