Load balancing of disk drives

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2008-04-22

2008-04-22

Mclean, Kimberly (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

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C711S100000, C711S004000, C711S111000, C711S112000, C718S105000

Reexamination Certificate

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07363451

ABSTRACT:
System and methods are disclosed for load balancing Input/Output (IO) commands to be executed by one or more disk drives from an array of disk drives. Systems and methods disclosed herein use one or more properties, such as disk drive RPM, disk drive cache, command queue lengths, real-time drive data, and head position to provide load balancing of Input/Output commands.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2006/0212873 (2006-09-01), Takahisa
patent: 2006/0288184 (2006-12-01), Riska et al.

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