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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2008
Stefan Abeling, Schwarmstedt, DE;
Wolfgang Klausberger, Hannover, DE;
Thomas Brune, Hannover, DE;
Axel Kochale, Springe, DE;
Stefan Abeling, Schwarmstedt, DE;
Wolfgang Klausberger, Hannover, DE;
Thomas Brune, Hannover, DE;
Axel Kochale, Springe, DE;
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a redundancy protected mass storage system with increased performance, and more specifically to a mass storage system with multiple storage units. According to the invention, the resources that are essentially provided for compensating the damage of one or more storage units are also used to enhance the system performance. For this purpose during reading or writing the storage system just waits for the responses of a minimum number of required storage units to start reading or writing, respectively.