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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Ahmad A. J. Ali, Austin, TX (US);
Rohit Chawla, Waco, TX (US);
Gary B. Kotzur, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin T. Marks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Howard A. Shoobe, Austin, TX (US);
Ahmad A. J. Ali, Austin, TX (US);
Rohit Chawla, Waco, TX (US);
Gary B. Kotzur, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin T. Marks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Howard A. Shoobe, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for recovering from a drive failure in a storage array is disclosed in which a spare drive array is provided in the event of a failure in one of the active drives of the storage array. The spare drive array is comprised of multiple drives that are comprised in a RAID 0 configuration to reduce the time required to rebuild the content of the failed drive on the spare drive.