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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2008
Masataka Innan, Odawara, JP;
Shigeo Homma, Odawara, JP;
Akinobu Shimada, Chigasaki, JP;
Hideo Tabuchi, Odawara, JP;
Masataka Innan, Odawara, JP;
Shigeo Homma, Odawara, JP;
Akinobu Shimada, Chigasaki, JP;
Hideo Tabuchi, Odawara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a storage system including a file server connecting to a computer over a network and a storage apparatus connecting to the file server connecting over the network, wherein the file server includes a first controller, the storage apparatus includes multiple storage devices having multiple storage areas and a second controller that controls accesses to the multiple storage areas, each of the multiple storage areas has at least one power saving mode among multiple power saving modes with different shift times from the power saving modes to a ready mode, the first controller, in response to the reception of data from the computer, sets an indicator relating to the performance of response to an access from the computer to the data and refers to the indicator of the data and selects a first storage area having the power saving mode satisfying the indicator, and the second controller stores the data to the first storage area.