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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas E. Ludwig, Perris, CA (US);
John E. Maroney, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2069 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/201 (2013.01); G06F 11/2056 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system including a first boot drive configured to store an operating system, one or more data drives configured to store user data, the one or more data drives distinct from the first boot drive, and a controller configured to detect when a second boot drive is added to the storage system, and automatically configure the first boot drive and the second boot drive in a redundant array of independent disks ('RAID') configuration when the controller detects that the second boot drive is added to the storage system.