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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2016
Divergent Storage Systems, Inc., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Greg Huff, The Woodlands, TX (US);
John Hemphill, Spring, TX (US);
DIVERGENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and media for improving data storage reliability and efficiency comprising: creating at least one logical storage drive comprising a plurality of logical blocks; mapping the at least one logical storage drive to at least one physical storage drive based on many-to-one mapping or one-to-many mapping, wherein the at least one physical storage drive comprises a plurality of physical blocks; and applying a compression algorithm to data held in one or more logical blocks, aggregating units of the data, and storing the units of the data into one or more physical blocks.