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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2004
Applicants:
John V. Burroughs, East Sandwich, MA (US);
Stephen E. Strickland, Marlborough, MA (US);
Timothy E. Dorr, Lancaster, MA (US);
Inventors:
John V. Burroughs, East Sandwich, MA (US);
Stephen E. Strickland, Marlborough, MA (US);
Timothy E. Dorr, Lancaster, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disk drive spin-up is staggered to reduce peak power requirements. Spin-up of the drives is controlled by selectively delaying voltage inputs to the disk drives. Alternately, spin-up of the drives is controlled by staggering the timing of communications to the disk drives.