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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2005
Applicants:
Takeki Okamoto, Odawara, JP;
Mikio Fukuoka, Odawara, JP;
Eiju Katsuragi, Odawara, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system enabling effective use of storage resources by immediately releasing a storage device provided as a spare from data recovery processing for a faulty storage device. Even before the completion of the collection copy, the faulty disk drive may be replaced with a new disk drive and a relevant control unit in the storage system recognizes this replacement and has data in the spare disk drive automatically copied back to the new disk drive.