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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2008
Ganesh Sivaperuman, Chennai, IN;
Hariharan Kamalavannan, Chennai, IN;
Suresh Dhanarajan, Krishnagiri, IN;
Senthil Kannan, Pondicherry, IN;
Ganesh Sivaperuman, Chennai, IN;
Hariharan Kamalavannan, Chennai, IN;
Suresh Dhanarajan, Krishnagiri, IN;
Senthil Kannan, Pondicherry, IN;
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of improving storage reliability comprising receiving an indicator of an impending failure of a first storage device in a RAID group. In response to the indicator, writing data to the first storage device is ceased. A first block of data directed to be written on the first storage device is written to a memory device. Data stored on the first storage device is copied to a second storage device. The first block of data is copied from the memory device to the second storage device. The RAID group is operated with the second storage device functioning in place of the first storage device. Data is read from said second storage device.