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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2017
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Slik, Northridge, CA (US);
Peter Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage system includes data storage devices, bus conductors, and mobile reader/writer devices. Each of the storage devices is positioned between insulators, is at one of a plurality of locations on one of one or more shelf assemblies, and comprises a processor coupled to a memory and an interface device. One of the bus conductors is adjacent each of the insulators. Each of the reader/writer devices includes a transport apparatus, a processor and a memory. The transport apparatus is configured to move one of the reader/writer devices to one or more of the locations when engaged. The processor is coupled to the transport apparatus and the memory and is configured to execute machine executable code to: engage the transport apparatus to position one of the reader/writer devices to one of the locations in response to a received operation; couple power to one of the storage devices; and execute the operation.