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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Musa I. Kakish, Anaheim, CA (US);
Charles A. Neumann, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/266 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device including a communications interface configured to receive data and power, a plurality of disk drives configured to be powered only by the power received by the communications interface, a controller configured to configure the plurality of disk drives as a redundant array of independent disks, a power regulator configured to transmit the received power from the communications interface to the plurality of disk drives, and a peak current reduction circuit configured to reduce peak current usage by the plurality of disk drives.