Monitoring and analyzing the storage quality and the drive...

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2011-08-30

2011-08-30

Pardo, Thuy N (Department: 2627)

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Condition indicating, monitoring, or testing

Having abnormality condition indicating

C053S053000, C053S053000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08009539

ABSTRACT:
A method and infrastructure are provided for monitoring and analyzing the storage media quality and the drive hardware performance of a media library. The media library comprises a plurality of removable storage media, a plurality of drive units for said storage media and means for moving said storage media to and from appropriate drive units. The media library is managed by a management system being connected to said media library. At least one reference medium of a known and proven quality to compare the performance of at least one of said storage media in a given drive unit with the performance of said reference medium in said given drive unit and/or to test the performance of at least one given drive unit of said media library when acting on said reference medium.

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