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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Amy Leigh Rose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Durham, NC (US);
Jennifer Lee-Baron, Morrisville, NC (US);
John Scott Crowe, Durham, NC (US);
James C. Loebach, Raleigh, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
One embodiment provides a system, including: one or more processors; a network interface for communication with a remote bank of available storage; a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) operatively coupled to the one or more processors; and a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to: ascertain at least one unavailable hard disk drive (HDD) of the RAID; determine an available remote storage target; dynamically update a storage destination for data to be stored from the at least one unavailable HDD of the RAID to the available remote storage target; and send the data over the network interface to the available remote storage target. Other embodiments are described and claimed.