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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2009
William Price Dawkins, Jonestown, TX (US);
Stephen Gouze Luning, Austin, TX (US);
William Price Dawkins, Jonestown, TX (US);
Stephen Gouze Luning, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides a method for assigning data in an information handling system including a plurality of physical storage resources comprising a first tier and a second tier which has a lower performance and cost relative to capacity than the first tier. A tier manager may be hosted on the information handling system and in electronic communication with the plurality physical storage resources. The tier manager may, for each page: determine a seek distance value, determine an operation rate, determine an operation size value, determine an elapsed time value, and calculate a relative randomness value using the seek distance value, operation rate, operation size value, and elapsed time value determined for each page. A classification module may assign a physical location for each page such that the relative randomness value for each page in the first tier is greater than in the second tier.