Storage control apparatus for selecting storage media based...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition

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C711S156000, C711S165000, C711S170000

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07549016

ABSTRACT:
A storage control apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of connecting units connected to one or more host computers and one or more hard disk drives as storage media for storing data, one or more non-volatile storage media which are of a different type from the hard disk drives and which store data WRITE requested from the host computer, a plurality of processing units for processing WRITE and READ requests from the host computer by using the hard disk drives or the non-volatile storage media and, a plurality of memory units for storing control information to be by the processing units.

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