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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2009
Marius Strom, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Chris Lionetti, Duvall, WA (US);
Marius Strom, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Chris Lionetti, Duvall, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A card can be communicationally coupled to a storage device. The card can then cause the storage device to perform stand-alone tasks without a computing device. The card can invoke instructions already present in the firmware of the storage device or the card can first copy instructions to the firmware and then invoke them. The card can cause the storage device to perform actions, such as a secure erase, and the storage device can remain inaccessible until such actions are performed, even if power is interrupted. The card can also receive information from the storage devices and then use that information with a new storage device to, for example, enable the new storage device to take the place of, and reconstruct the data of, the old storage device in a storage array directly from other storage devices in the array and without burdening a computing device or array controller.